Word: malenkov
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...Guilt." So last week began the second meeting of this session of the Supreme Soviet. The budget had been received and debated; custom called for a report on foreign affairs, made at the last session by Premier Georgy Malenkov. Instead, putty-nosed Alexander Volkov, Chairman of the Council of the Union, stepped forward to the rostrum. He had, he said, a communication from Comrade Malenkov. Volkov began reading from a paper in hand...
...said on behalf of Malenkov] to bring to the notice of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. my request to be relieved from the post of chairman of the Council of Ministers...
...afterthought, Bulganin announced that ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov had been made Minister of Electric Power Stations, and would continue to be a Deputy Premier...
...high-ranking generals among the Deputies had been surprised. It had all happened behind closed doors, within that narrow circle of men who, each fearful for his own life, had tried to create a headless dictatorship with checks and balances, and had failed. In the party Presidium pew Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around him. But no one in that audience was deceived. They knew now how serious it was for Malenkov. At the other end of the bench the parched, crushed-satin face of Molotov was turned away, and Marshal Bulganin fussed with...
...ungrammatical Russian. Only a few days before, he had joked and winked with foreign newsmen about the idea of capitalists and Communists sitting around a table talking together, and as he assured visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr.* that there was no possibility of a rift between himself and Malenkov, his blue eyes were as candid as a baby...