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...stroke Party Secretary Khrushchev sent into certain oblivion the three next-most-powerful policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy...
...privileged to hurl the whole book of party crimes at the losers. As is also Communist custom, the ink was hardly dry on Nikita's indictment before the party pack was snapping at the losers' heels. Biggest bark came from the army newspaper Red Star, which denounced Malenkov & Co. for "treacherous" and "conspiratorial action," capital charges in any society. Up from alternate to fill one of the vacancies on the party Presidium went Marshal Georgy Zhukov, indicating that Khrushchev had army support...
...power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case" (see below) suggested that Malenkov may not be around long...
Most of the intelligent people in New Hampshire laugh off Loeb's editorials as being a lot of garbage; I think they are wonderful. I also like Malenkov, Mickey Mouse and Mad comics...
...hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except that he had been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...