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...that the crafty Nikita had struck out 25 key industrial ministries in favor of control at regional levels, where his party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
Khrushchev, Malenkov and Voroshilov. Radio Moscow described the scene in throaty terms: "Now we see Comrade Janos Kadar emerging from the aircraft. Comrades Bulganin, Voroshilov welcome the dear visitors...
...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...
Deficiencies. Though meetings of the Supreme Soviet usually dully rubber-stamp economic plans and decrees, February is becoming a newsworthy month in Communist Russia. It was at a February Supreme Soviet meeting two years ago that Georgy Malenkov confessed to mismanagement, and dramatically resigned his premiership. It was also in February, one year ago at the 20th Party Congress, that Khrushchev opened the Pandora's box of Stalin's crimes...
Heretical political thought exists in Russia as well as curiosity, Fainsod wrote. He mentoned three students of Kiev who read the Yugoslav paper Borba because they do not believe their own press. Khrushchev was not popular with this group. They preferred Malenkov because of his identification with the consumer goods policy. Other "heroes" were Zhukov and Voroshilov...