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...fact, do U.S. critics any longer pant breathlessly over the mere novelty of Russian cultural performances or industrial exhibits. And as for the visits of the big Redwigs, the U.S. has toughened considerably in the half year since Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got an openhanded, almost fawning reception from business and civic leaders across the land...
Little is known about Kozlov except that he ranks coequal in the Kremlin hierarchy with First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Once an ardent Stalinist ("The Soviet people cannot for one moment forget the bloody intrigues of American imperialists who try to plunge mankind into a new world war"), he helped swing Communism's 130-man Central Committee behind Khrushchev in his key victory over the Stalinists in June 1957, has since risen rapidly in power...
Khrushchev also praised John Foster Dulles as "a great political figure," but of course his compliment had a Communist twist to it. Khrushchev's bare-faced whopper: in his last days, chatting with Mikoyan, Dulles had reversed his policy and accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...
Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone, which Khrushchev criticized in 1957 after it became a bestseller both in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., was not really such a bad book-said Khrushchev expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted...
...stale language of the cold war, this was the conference that could not succeed; rarely in history had an international meeting been so discounted beforehand. "What is the use of a foreign ministers' meeting?" asked Russia's Mikoyan. "We'll just send Gromyko here, he'll spend a few weeks talking and he'll come back with nothing, so what...