Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover a situation of stalemate in the power struggle, the old Leninist phrase "collective leadership" was revived. The apparatus Stalin left behind was neither youthful, vigorous, nor rich in ideas. Some oldtimers like Molotov (66) are apparently slated for retirement, or about to be kicked upstairs, say, to the presidency in place of aging (75), ailing Marshal Voroshilov, who has taken to drinking heavily. Khrushchev, at 62, is in no shape to engage in a long-term fight and this makes him basically unsure of his position. On the other hand there is Malenkov (54) and a group of Central...
This has landed Socialist Mollet, who is no Popular Fronter,* in the bear's hug embrace of the Soviets. At a Moscow reception last week Nikita Khrushchev turned jubilantly to Foreign Minister Molotov and said: "Do you remember how we defended this [disarmament] position at Geneva and then did not insist on it when we saw that it was irreconcilable with the Western stand?" Without giving Molotov time to answer, Khrushchev added: "Now Mollet is saying what we said...
...meetings in Moscow alone, the new Soviet masters set about the awesome task of re-educating Russia to the new party line against the "cult of the individual." Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other top figures were detailed off to explain to crowds of Moscow factory workers that the leader whom the speakers themselves had slavishly praised and served had really been a murderous megalomaniac. Some 15,000 agitators fanned out through Stalin's homeland of Georgia, where, as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan admitted last week, "some people" had "taken it hard" (TIME, March...
Switches & Splits. The confessions of truckling cowardice that were implicit in the new Khrushchev-Molotov-Bulganin line might do for the inner Kremlin gang. But it was not so easy for Communist leaders outside Russia to explain their own participation in the great deceit. The debunking of Stalin hit world Communists with a deeper shock than anything since Stalin's 1939 pact with Hitler. In what may be the first of many satellite reverberations, the boss of Hungary's Communist Party has admitted that his regime sent five top Reds wrongly to death in 1949 (see below...
...purges in the satellite countries (e.g., Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Rumania's Ana Pauker, Albania's Koci Xoxe) might be reopened. It was given out in Moscow that the last victims on the mad Stalin's liquidation list had been Molotov, Voroshilov and Khrushchev himself...