Word: malenkov
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After his old editor Bukharin was finally liquidated in the great 1938 Moscow show trial, Soloviev was sentenced to "minus six," i.e., he was forbidden to live in Russia's six largest cities. He appealed to Lenin's widow and, through her, to Malenkov, with no result. Eventually, Soloviev was drafted and sent to Finland. In World War II he was assigned to a special task force that pulled Russian forces out from behind the advancing German armies and reassembled them for combat. Soloviev himself was pulled out of the war when the Nazis captured him during their...
While all this was going on, Minister of Electric Power Stations Malenkov (whose failure to show up at one of those big Moscow gatherings of the clans set off rumors that he had already been dropped dead) was reported far away in Siberia, making the rounds of power plants, getting more experience...
...wake of Georgy Malenkov's descent from Premier of Russia to boss of power stations: The lights go out during a top-level conference in Moscow, One Soviet-official turns to another and complains: "That damned idiot knows even less about electric power than about running the country...
...Force has used the four year, 900,000 study to justify numerous general conclusions. In the March issue of the Nation's Business," military experts predicted that the fall of Malenkov will have little effect on the future, that the USSR will continue to regard coexistence as temporary, that Russian leaders will continue to "pluck the overripe colonial plums" while waiting for the capitalists to destroy themselves, and that the major objective of Soviet policy today is internal consolidation, not expansion...
...businessmen returning from the Soviet Union during the past two years with their pockets bulging with trade orders have given glowing reports of the friendly attitude of Soviet business bigwigs, particularly Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Britain wearing the new, or post-Malenkov, hard-hat look. They wanted to cancel or modify earlier orders for consumer capital goods. Estimated value of cancellations (mostly for textile and shoemaking machinery) to date...