Word: malenkov
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...overlooked one significant fact in the otherwise excellent analysis concerning the cold-shoulder treatment accorded to B. & K. by the British-as contrasted to the effusive welcome extended Georgy. It is crystal-clear that Boom Boom Khrushchev vanquished Peep Peep Malenkov in the preliminaries for the fumbling championship of the U.S.S.R. Now, the tag team of Bim & Bom is in training for the finals. Naturally, the British, being the jolly sporting type, are rooting for the underdog to make a comeback...
...denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
...leaders of the Labor Party had planned a quiet little dinner for B. & K. in a private dining room in the Houses of Parliament, and looked forward to the kind of pleasantly informal discussion they had had with Georgy Malenkov. They knew there would be differences, but hoped these might be cordially discussed. So they planned. But they expected too much of their No. 1 guest. Churlish Nikita Khrushchev made it a night to remember...
Khrushchev had also destroyed the personal image of himself as the jovial, rough, goodhearted peasant. "The man's impossible," snapped Nye Bevan. "A fanatical Communist- very different from Malenkov," said Gaitskell...
...reasons could be deduced: if the party was going to open that one up, he was going to be chief opener. If they intended to pin a guilt label to him, he would show that they were all equally guilty. By twice indicating in his speech that Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's most trusted collaborator, he wanted to make certain that Malenkov (whom Muscovites now somewhat affectionately call Georgy Neudachnik-Georgy the Unsuccessful) came in for his share of guilt...