Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed "The Perfidious Policy of Iran," Pravda roared that the Shah's "two-faced dealings" would earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
...collective leadership," when "the cult of the individual" was out of favor, he had actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
...there was no doubt who the winner was. Here was Nikita Khrushchev, 64, racing through the statistics of his triumphs-Lunik, Sputniks, "mass-produced" ICBMs, new targets for industry, farming and education. Gone was the last Congress' talk of collective leadership; gone were those saber-toothed old commissars (Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov et al.), who had been bloodlessly banished and disgraced...
...well prove as momentous as the 20th Congress three years ago. at which Khrushchev tearfully and historically denounced Stalin. For weeks past, ominous hints have been gathering that Khrushchev might use the occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem -low agricultural productivity -on the antiparty men, thus satisfying two desires at once. But the rest of the world...
...former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...