Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went farthest, and stayed longest, with Stalin was Vyacheslav Molotov. Last week, after a brief eclipse, flinty-eyed Molotov, 66, moving into a key government job, gave renewed proof of his extraordinary durability in politics at its most hazardous...
...symbol of Stalinism after 43 years at Stalin's side, Molotov was shoved into the background during the new era of debunking the old dictator and cultivating such longtime Stalin enemies as Tito. But now that the fabric of Stalin's empire was rent by Titoism plus destalinization, Old Iron Pants could point the finger at Khrushchev & Co. as a pack of blunderers. His new job was one which would enable him to do literally this, if so minded. Although functioning in part as a kind of auditor general's department, the Ministry of State Control means...
...Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...
...Kremlin will eventually triumph, though the wounded tone of his speech indicated that the Stalinist gang which is "acting so destructively" is now dominant in Russia, and the result will be "difficult times ahead." He mentioned no names, but Russian specialists identify the old guard as dominated by Molotov, Kaganovich and Mikhail Suslov...
...front of their flimsy barricades the rebels put pictures of Stalin, Lenin and Molotov, saying: "They will have to shoot their own leaders before they get us." On one side of the Hungaria Korut lay a row of wounded rebel fighters, on the other a first-aid station. Every time a Red Cross man crossed the street he was brought down by Russian fire. Other Red Cross men spun ropes across the street. The wounded tied the ropes to their legs and were dragged to the first-aid station...