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More significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
Forty Pitheads. Vorkuta is a complex of prison camps, situated in the bleak tundra territory of European Russia on the river Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle, about 1,400 miles northeast of Leningrad. A century ago Czar Nicholas I's advisers suggested to him that he make a colony for political prisoners at Vorkuta, but when he learned the conditions, Nicholas decided that it was "too much to demand of any man that he should live there." The Soviets let the native Komi remain there, virtually ignored until 1942, until the invading Nazis captured the Donbas coal mines. Then...
...Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the country's largest, though both Moslems and Socialists are at least antiCommunist. Last week the Indonesian Minister of Information gave a small party for press attaches and foreign newsmen. The feature of the evening was movies - a short on a glass factory in Leningrad, another on modern apartments Moscow, and a full-length Russian film in color...
...communique said that Abakumov, "having been placed in the post of Minister of State Security by Beria, was a direct participant in the criminal subversive group that carried out Beria's orders." Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia's World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited by Soviet...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Eugene Mravinsky on Concert Hall; New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos on Columbia). The latest symphony by Russia's Dmitry Shostakovich performed by the orchestras that gave the work its world and U.S. premieres respectively. The Americans, for all their dazzling virtuosity, sound less Russian than the Russians, but both recordings make the work sound stronger and more cohesive than it does in concert...