Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward the big time...
...party's Central Committee was meeting, and that big shifts were in the making. Then, early one grey morning, when the newspapers of the Western world were already responding to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow, the 4:40 a.m. edition of Pravda broke it to Russians: Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich had fallen. They were...
...Notions. Old Bolshevik Molotov, for 13 years Soviet Foreign Minister and for 51 years a 'hardheaded, hard-bottomed servant of Communism, was singled out for special attack. It "cannot be considered accidental" that he had repeatedly come out against "measures to improve relations between the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia," and was "against normalization of relations with Japan." He was opposed to the "different ways of transition to socialism" thesis, and "denied the advisability of establishing personal contacts between the Soviet leaders and the statesmen of other countries." The anti-party group was "shackled by old notions and methods," and Molotov...
...argument, the Red activists tossed flaming Molotov cocktails into the farmers' haystacks, poisoned their cattle's water with creosote. By the end of April three-fourths of the farm hands in the district were refusing to work, either in sympathy with the Communist cause or in fear of Communist bullyboys. Red big shots poured into the district to pour oratorical fuel on the flames. Czechoslovakia's Prague radio chimed in across the air waves urging the Po strikers...
Fortnight ago, CBS got a surprise telephone call from the Soviet embassy in Washington. In response to a recent invitation, the biggest of all, Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev, had agreed to face the cameras of Face the Nation. Still wary from its experience with Molotov, Face the Nation nevertheless last week sent a crew of six to Moscow to begin preparations for a filmed "free" exchange between Khrushchev and several U.S. correspondents in Moscow to be broadcast over 92 CBS TV stations and about 150 radio stations on Sunday, June 2. To avoid the loss of time in translation...