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...Earlier, Melnikov had said: "Those who in the past actively promoted the policy of stagnation may not serve and work on the central party and government bodies now, at the time of perestroika. They should answer for everything and do so personally...
...delegate, Vladimir I. Melnikov, specifically mentioned Gromyko and the others after Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev asked him to name the targets of his criticism...
...begun. In Stalin's slow and terrible eye, such art was decadent and, because of its internationalism, bourgeois-formalist. The Gulag swallowed some artists, like Boris Kushner. Others, such as Larionov, Goncharova, Gabo and Ivan Puni, went into exile. Those who stayed, like Rodchenko or the architect Konstantin Melnikov, survived as ghosts, forgotten men in a culture of vindictive Stalinist toadies. Like Cronus, the Revolution devoured its children. As a wholesale trashing of a civilization, only Hitler's demolition of the German modernists compares with it. Inside the Soviet Union, the works themselves lay buried, invisible...
...after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying out of national policy." Melnikov was charged with having mishandled the situation in the Western Ukraine by bringing Russian Communists into administrative positions, taking a wrong (i.e., strong) line on collectivization and ordering...