Word: malenkov
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...back as his introductory report to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956 et seq.), Khrushchev made passing derogatory references to Molotov's "contemptuous attitude" and to Malenkov's consumer-goods plan ("incorrigible boaster"). In his famous secret, weeping, emotional speech to the same body ten days later, in which he denounced Stalin as a "sickly suspicious," bloodthirsty tyrant, Khrushchev tried to take from Stalin even his chief glory as victor in war, and in doing so, told an anecdote which showed that Malenkov was close to Stalin's side during his most panicky...
...Presidium were united by one resolve-not to let one man get such power over them again. And so the Soviet myth of collective leadership spread. They were all presumably such buddies: "I'm heavy industry, boom, boom!" said Khrushchev at one diplomatic reception. Then he tapped Malenkov on the shoulder: "And Georgy here is light industry, peep, peep...
...that would put the great plants and government enterprises under the control of his own regional and district party chiefs, instead of being centralized in Moscow. He could argue that the Moscow bureaucracy was top-heavy; it is. But Khrushchev had another motive. As Stalin's personnel manager, Malenkov had been largely responsible for building up the industrial technocracy. He had his principal supporters there. Malenkov saw a threat to his own strength, and fought back...
...this point Malenkov may have made common cause with those old Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev...
Immediately Presidium Member Andrei Kirilenko, a virtual unknown from Sverdlovsk, attacked Molotov, saying that the party conservatives were "responsible for the outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...