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...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...
...plausible sound: a prearranged close testing of strength would be a finely calculated hint to the ebullient Nikita to mend his ways, but fast. It would explain the recent reversal of the Khrushchev line, the rewarming of Stalinist slogans for the benefit of Old Guard Communists such as Molotov, and the coolness towards Tito. It would also account for Khrushchev's belated dash down to Budapest (in the pattern of his onetime troubleshooting swings through the Ukraine) and the great forgathering in Moscow last week of the ever-faithful East Germans...
...brief years of peaceful independence, but Hitler and Stalin finally did it in. Poland had a non-aggression pact with Russia dating from 1929, and after Hitler's rise it contracted alliances with the West and signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with Germany. But in 1939 Molotov and Hitler got together, signed a secret protocol arranging to attack Poland simultaneously from both sides and to partition it out of existence. After a 26-day fight, Poland was no more. Said Molotov: "Nothing is left of that monstrous bastard, the Versailles Treaty...
...symbol of Stalinism after 43 years at Stalin's side, Molotov was shoved into the background during the new era of debunking the old dictator and cultivating such longtime Stalin enemies as Tito. But now that the fabric of Stalin's empire was rent by Titoism plus destalinization, Old Iron Pants could point the finger at Khrushchev & Co. as a pack of blunderers. His new job was one which would enable him to do literally this, if so minded. Although functioning in part as a kind of auditor general's department, the Ministry of State Control means...
...Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...