Word: malenkov
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...fact was that in its first five days, the B. & K. act was proving one of the great flops of modern diplomacy. In full view of the world, and unexpectedly, they had fallen flat on their faces. What had gone wrong? Hadn't they forehandedly sent Malenkov ahead, and hadn't he reported the atmosphere friendly? Of course, all those disagreeable press fellows led by Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge had been stirring up trouble. And it had been a serious tactical mistake to send Khrushchev's unsavory friend, MVD General Ivan Serov, to check up on security...
During the first German attack on the Ukraine, Khrushchev had called Stalin to ask for more guns, but Stalin had refused to answer the phone, put Malenkov on the line instead to say that all available guns were being sent to Leningrad. Later, after the Red army counterattacked Kharkov, Khrushchev had called Stalin at his summer resort to ask for a change of plan. Again Stalin had got Malenkov to say no, with the result that Kharkov was lost and the overextended Red army driven back across the Don. The old dictator had also treated him contemptuously, Khrushchev complained, called...
...secretaryships of the new party Central Committee. The truth was Stalin liked and encouraged Khrushchev. Immediately after the dictator's death Khrushchev had inherited enough of Stalin's power within the party structure to take over the party secretaryship, Stalin's old job, from Georgy Malenkov, who became Premier...
...kicked upstairs, say, to the presidency in place of aging (75), ailing Marshal Voroshilov, who has taken to drinking heavily. Khrushchev, at 62, is in no shape to engage in a long-term fight and this makes him basically unsure of his position. On the other hand there is Malenkov (54) and a group of Central Committee secretaries, such as Mikhail Suslov, Peter Pospelov and Dmitry Shepilov (who masterminded the Czech arms deal with Nasser), whose main concern seems to be a desire to see that no one else gets too much power. This leaves the balance of power...
...with tables of production, learned quotes from Lenin, and exhortations to efficiency and greater production. It sounded like (and might easily have been) a rehash of one of Stalin's old speeches. In Stalin's mighty fashion, Khrushchev took lofty cracks at top party comrades, referred to Malenkov as an "incorrigible braggart," and told how it had been "necessary to correct" Molotov on an important ideological point...