Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet, met last week in the great assembly hall of the Kremlin. At Stalin's right hand as he entered the hall was V. M. Molotov, who a week before had been "released" as Minister of Foreign Affairs. With Stalin, too, was A. I. Mikoyan who had been released as Minister of Foreign Trade. The three together were cheered. Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky...
...arrangements buttressed the theory that Molotov and Mikoyan had not been demoted...
...Russian administrative setup experienced further quakes last weekend when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial production). This had occurred on the same day that Molotov and Mikoyan were released of their ministries. But there was a difference: Molotov and Mikoyan remained as Deputy Prime Ministers; Voznesensky...
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...