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Moscow's minutes, which sold out within hours, showed that after Bulganin admitted "joining" the "antiparty activities of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov," speaker after speaker rose-obviously in a coordinated assault-to assail his confession as "feeble" and "unconvincing." Said Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, a longtime Khrushchev henchman from the Ukraine: "Bulganin now pretends that he only joined the group at the last minute. This is not true. If Bulganin has in fact repented, then he must disarm himself completely and tell honestly about his subversive work and about the roots that have remained...
Besides suggesting that there is still party opposition to be uprooted, this report indicated that Boss Khrushchev is demanding even more self-incriminating confessions before or during the 21st Party Congress, which opens Jan. 27. The rhetoric of accusation is increasing in intensity. State Prosecutor Roman Rudenko recently accused Malenkov & Co. of having "committed criminal violations of Soviet legality." In the old days, using the word criminal was the first ritual step to a show trial and execution. How much does Khrushchev need victims now? At the very least, some of Khrushchev's old comrades, now in disgrace, will...
...Darkness at Noon deals with issues that Bulganin must find preciously close these days. One can only guess how the intricacies of party theory confronted such malevolent characters as Beria and Malenkov. Certainly Koestler's 1938 psychological insights into the Communist-mind-at-work have modern and equally terrifying variants, which you not idly ponder as you leave Lowell House...
...covering 6½ pages of Pravda. When he took over five years ago, he said, Soviet agriculture was in "a very bad state," its grain output so low that cities suffered from bread shortages, its livestock population dying by the millions for lack of fodder. Only the year before, Malenkov, "to conceal the failures under his direction," had "dishonestly" put out "humbug" figures purporting to show that the country had produced 145 million tons of grain, when in cold fact it had harvested no more than 100 million. Taking over, Nikita Khrushchev saw that the only way to expand production...
...that Soviet wool output was now 2.3 times that of the U.S. and second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production did he admit that the Soviet Union, producing less than half the U.S. output, was failing to catch up. But though declaring Malenkov's figure a lie (since it made his own seem less impressive), Khrushchev was almost certainly fudging his own figures. Western specialists, piecing together other evidence, suspect that Khrushchev has inflated current grain production so that party critics could not protest that his 153-million-ton goal...