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...lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming in the sea when they ought to be on citizens' tables...
...They seem to need it badly. A good many Western observers no longer accept as fact what once seemed so plain: the direct transference of authority from Stalin to Malenkov. That original assumption leaves too many later developments unexplained: e.g., the abandonment by Malenkov of the key job of Secretary of the Communist Party, and the conspicuous absence of any personal buildup of Malenkov...
...That in ordering the doctors' purge in January, he intended a drastic shake-up in the higher echelons, with Lavrenty Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that such a purge might involve himself sooner or later- made common cause with Beria. ¶ That something historic happened in the Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice...
...fatal stroke. ¶ That Beria-who saved his own life by plotting against his master's-is thus the key man in the new regime. But it would be too obvious and jarring to the public for the policeman to assume full powers himself, especially after Malenkov, during the last Party Congress, had been made to appear "most likely to succeed." "The Russians," wrote a U.S. expert, "are purists of power. They pass up all the cheap little victories, like getting your picture in the paper, because it makes it easier to arrive at the ultimate goal of power...
British officialdom believes that Molotov will be the Lepidus to Malenkov's Antony and Beria's Octavian. "It's as though he has been thrown across the gap between the old and the new regime, like a Bailey bridge. While Molotov's got a use, they'll use him. But once they've got their feet firmly planted on the other bank, the bridge will be discarded...