Word: melnikov
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...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...