Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three minutes, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev decreed the removal of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the presidency of the Soviet Union and won the automatic assent of the 1,443 "worker and peasant" delegates. For Brezhnev, 57, the step down was really a step up. More clearly than ever, Brezhnev (TIME Cover, Feb. 21) is now Khrushchev's heir apparent. Being freed from the mere protocol tasks carried out by the President (formally known as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet), he can now apply himself more vigorously to the job that really counts: helping...
...months ago, the Russians began a new chapter in their history with TIME. Correspondent Israel Shenker, our Moscow bureau chief since March 1963, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow and read a formal statement charging that our cover story on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and the state of the Russian economy (Feb. 21) was "slanderous." Unless we changed our approach, he was informed, our office would be closed. In a reply to the Foreign Ministry we said, in effect, that we intended to continue reporting the Soviet Union as we saw it. Last week Shenker was called...
First-Class Lion. As Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his 70th birthday last week, the image of Lenin appeared in yet another prominent place: Nikita's chest. The Order of Lenin was pinned on him by President Leonid Brezhnev. There were other decorations. Outer Mongolia awarded Khrushchev its Order of Suhe-Bator, Czechoslovakia weighed in with the Order of the White Lion, first class, with gold chain, and top orders came from East Germany and Rumania. The congratulations almost recalled the "personality cult" that once surrounded Stalin; they salute Nikita as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy...
...atheism is to succeed, warned Commission Chairman Leonid Ilyichev, non-believers must embark on a person-to-person campaign - "more heart-to-heart talks, frank explanations and patient conversations." He suggested the formation of Young Atheist clubs, whose members could enter into anti-religious dialogues with believers, such as warning pregnant women about the physical dangers involved in baptism and circumcision...
...interesting to learn from your cover story about the Soviet President [Feb. 21] that Leonid Brezhnev is a Ukrainian like Khrushchev. This may predispose them to feel more "European" than was the case with the preceding Red rulers, since Lenin was a Tartar, Trotsky was Jewish, and Stalin came from the Caucasus...