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...mass meetings were held in two days, and at them well-briefed party activists worked over the communiqué. Said Radio Moscow: "The strongest impression which one gains among the population is that those dismissed have no following." At a U.S. embassy party, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan-who, as usual, had lithely jumped the right way-promised: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." Scores of cities and towns named Molotov or Kaganovich petitioned with punctual unanimity to have their names changed. Ukrainian Premier Nikifor Kalchenko charged that during Stalin's reign Kaganovich...
...that he had been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...
Egan also poured out his feelings to world figures, dashed off messages to General Douglas MacArthur ("For many years I have thought you were a phony, but I beg your pardon now"), Russia's First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan ("I believe the bells of the world should be tolled for the death of free speech in the U.S."), proposed to his city council that he and his wife be sent to Russia, where he and Nikita Khrushchev could thresh things out. The council declined...
...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...
...that his puppet regime could be rehearsed in a new Hungarian dance routine: soft lights to hide the scars, schmalzy music to lull the world's suspicions. At the little marionette's elbow in Moscow were such big-time choreographers as Khrushchev, Premier Bulganin, First Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Foreign Minister Shepilov, and Red China's Chou Enlai. Before the act could be tried out, there were rude noises from the audience back in Budapest...