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...words were inflammatory, but the audience took them in stride. Referring to the discredited era of Leonid Brezhnev, who died in 1982, Vladimir I. Melnikov, an obscure official from the Russian republic, declared from the podium at the 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference, "People who in previous times actively conducted the policy of stagnation cannot now be on, or work in, central party or Soviet organs in the period of restructuring...
...remarks from Melnikov at the closed-door conclave were the first reported by state-run media that named names and called members of the party leadership on the carpet, including Gromyko, 78, and fellow Politburo member Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 74, who chairs the party's Control Commission...
...Melnikov, the balding, bespectacled party leader in the Russian federation region of Komi, said restructuring of the party's policy-making Central Committee is proceeding too slowly and that Communists and other Soviets want people responsible for stagnation brought to account...
Gorbachev, sitting on the dais, interrupted Melnikov, saying: "Maybe you have some concrete suggestions? We're sitting here and don't know: Is he talking about me, or somebody else...
...would refer first of all to Comrade Solomentsev, and to Comrades Gromyko, Afanasyev, Arbatov and others," Melnikov replied. Delegates applauded loudly...