Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shook Up by Molotov...
...demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened? One week later [after the dismissal of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in Russia], these counter-revolutionary creatures recovered their confidence. Disintegration, they thought, was starting in the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners...
...headlong ideas for solving agriculture crises the "easy way" have often flopped. He himself acknowledges that the Russian economic experts-at whom he always jeers-are agreed that his plans for equaling the U.S. in food production in a couple of seasons are impossible. His brother Stalinists-Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich-may have been united only in stern Marxist suspicion of the "childish joy" of his impulses. On the record, he is as committed to slavery, to crushing out trouble in the satellites, and to enmity of the West, as any Communist...
Everybody fell in with the new line. In Leningrad barrel-chested Marshal Georgy Zhukov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in a bottle-green uniform listing to port under a load of gold and silver orders, castigated the ousted Malenkov. Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted...
...meeting, followed by a meeting of the Central Committee, which lasted far beyond normal duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would cost them their lives-undoubtedly put up a vigorous fight: Molotov, attacking Khrushchev's inept foreign policy; Malenkov, agilely trying to save his skin; and the sour-voiced Kaganovich, full of murderous hate for the man who had once been his protege. But they lost because the mass of the party was against them and had ordained that they should...