Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lift the eating standards of the 20th Century Soviet people from stinking fish to somewhere near the standards of American sharecroppers, has been the achievement of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. In the '305 he visited the U.S., brought back to Russia the Eskimo...
...hard fact was that Molotov and Mikoyan, among the few surviving Old Bolsheviks, remained as members of the Politburo. The probability, as Correspondent Joseph Newman cabled the New York Herald Tribune through the Moscow censorship, was that they were in line for "more important work"-not demoted but promoted. Stalin is 69; he has said publicly that his health is not good. He must plan on some sort of succession...
...Chronicle." The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had "released the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., Comrade V.M. Molotov, from the duties of Minister of Foreign Affairs." It had appointed Andrei Vishinsky as Foreign Minister. Also, it had released the Deputy Chairman etc., A. I. Mikoyan, from the post of Minister of Foreign Trade and appointed in his stead M. A. Menshikov...
Discipline for the Dissidents. Not for the Vishinskys and the Gromykos but for the policymakers is the great problem that now faces the party: how to consolidate the Communist empire in the face of "Titoism." Perhaps Molotov and Mikoyan have been assigned to working out the political and economic arrangements under which the national Communist Parties can be made to work in harness. It was easy when only Russia had an army and a secret police; but now the party faces potential "Titoism" throughout eastern Europe and-especially-in China...
Whether Molotov and Mikoyan have been moved nearer the throne or down to the basement, world Communism's next big goal is to digest its enormous gains of the last four years. The "incalculable machine" cannot stop where it is. The gears are clanking for new operations...