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This week's cover story on Russia's Premier Malenkov, and Stalin's appearance on TIME'S cover last week-for the tenth and presumably last time-illustrate some of the difficulties in covering the news from Russia these days. The facts of Stalin's death and Malenkov's succession were the most substantial pieces of news that have breached the Iron Curtain since World War II. But the full background of these facts had to be supplied by filling in a number of blank spaces...
Conspicuous among the grim, worried satellite leaders who journeyed to Moscow for Stalin's funeral was Klement Gottwald, 56, President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ceremonies; only Chou En-lai of Red China stood closer. Although, in Moscow's view, Gottwald was merely a tried and trusty puppet, to the Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged...
...face that Moscow turned to the world this week was, except for the missing mustache, disconcertingly the same-fat, inscrutable, steelyeyed. Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov and his fellow heirs to the proletarian kingdom of Joseph Stalin had stepped into power with every outward sign of unity...
Russia's top leaders probably now have a feeling that they must hang together lest they hang separately. That feeling could last months or years. Yet Malenkov will have to purge, if only to show and prove his power. Malenkov may establish himself as Stalin II; it is also possible that a new Stalin may emerge from relative obscurity. If a struggle is inevitable, there are no signs...
...Soviet Union. He ordered three days mourning for "the most esteemed and dearest friend and teacher of the Chinese people." Quickly getting in its endorsement of the new regime, Peking announced that 47,150 Chinese cadres have been spending two afternoons a week for two months studying a speech Malenkov made last October...