Word: leningraders
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...remarkable fact of the latest Kremlin shakeup was that Khrushchev found it necessary to define Communism's goals in American terms-"initiative," "incentives," etc. He told a workers' mass meeting in Leningrad that Communists should "be able to solve the problem of catching up with the U.S.A.," that the Soviet people should have enough meat, butter, milk and fruit, and their shops should be filled with "everything that makes man's life more beautiful...
...deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case" (see below) suggested that Malenkov may not be around long...
...Hatching Cunning Schemes." The climax of the hate campaign came with an address given by Khrushchev to the workers of the Elektrosila factory in Leningrad, and broadcast nationally. Khrushchev accused Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich of "hatching cunning schemes" to obtain "key positions in the party," and called Shepilov "a most shameless double-dealing individual...
Before a gathering of Soviet agricultural workers and farm experts in Leningrad last week, Nikita Khrushchev, the busy boss of all the Russias, admitted that he could not do everything at once. "Even Chekhov's hero," said Nikita, "unscrewed only one nut before he started on another." But having only just started the huge job of decentralizing the whole of Soviet industry, Khrushchev was ready and willing to take on the biggest and balkiest of all Soviet troubles: the farm problem...
...that it would settle for one piece of sky at a time. Harold E. Stassen, the President's Disarmament Adviser, informally suggested to Russia's representative, Valerian Zorin, that the powers might begin by trying out aerial inspection in 1) a patch of Europe between Amsterdam and Leningrad, and 2) a North Pacific zone including most of Alaska and a small piece of Siberia. Last week Zorin formally proposed a larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast Britain, all France and Germany, all of the satellites-but practically none of Russia itself...