Word: malenkov
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...party's Central Committee was meeting, and that big shifts were in the making. Then, early one grey morning, when the newspapers of the Western world were already responding to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow, the 4:40 a.m. edition of Pravda broke it to Russians: Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich had fallen. They were...
...guilty of "conspiratorial action." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star said that the accused had threatened to undermine the foundations of Soviet military security-a move "which would have played into the hands of the enemies of the Soviet state, the imperialist aggressors." Added the government newspaper Izvestia: "Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded the development of electrical power stations." At week's end Pravda was able to report a "wave of popular wrath...
...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...
...life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary, Secret Police Boss Viktor Abakumov and three subordinates were executed in December 1954 for their role in it. Said Khrushchev menacingly last week: "Malenkov, who was one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, simply was afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." If Malenkov had not actually been afraid for his life before, he had real cause to be now: Khrushchev had laid the basis of a criminal conspiracy...
...first victory, a few days after Stalin's death (a victory undoubtedly obtained with the support of other Old Communists), had been to ease Stalin Protégé Malenkov out of the First Party Secretaryship, and 23 months later to force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing...