Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago the Communists resolved to turn their seven East European satellites from what was once Europe's granary into Russia's arsenal. This was the Molotov Plan, to counter the Marshall Plan, and it got a bureaucratic name: KOMEKON.† The goal was gargantuan: to create a new industrial empire, 90 million strong. The cost, in hardship, did not matter...
...inveterate suspicion with which the Russians regarded foreigners was shown by some remarkable incidents during Molotov's stay in Chequers. On arrival they had asked at once for keys to all the bedrooms . . . Thereafter our guests always kept their doors locked. When the staff at Chequers succeeded in getting in to make the beds, they were disturbed to find pistols under the pillows...
...Winston Churchill, describing Molotov's wartime visit to England...
...powerful Presidium (25 full members, eleven alternates) to replace the defunct Politburo (TIME, Sept. 1). No. 1 on the list of Presidium members: Joseph Stalin. Chief aides: Molotov, Malenkov, Beria. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, His Master's Voice at the U.N. (see above), got a pat on the back: he was included as an alternate member of the Presidium (his Menshevik past has previously kept him from higher honors). Politburocrat Andrei Andreev, onetime boss of collective farms, was not on the list...
...cold war, not cold peace, was still the order of the day in the Kremlin, where the Communist Party Congress met for the first time in 13 years. Molotov cried that U.S. "ruling circles" are "conducting preparations for unleashing a new world war"; Malenkov accused the U.S. of saddling "their junior partners, enslaving them, flogging them mercilessly," also "inspiring plots against their English and French allies" in their colonies. "The conflicts at present dividing the imperialist camp can lead...