Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave a truer picture of how far Khrushchev really is from equaling the U.S., and how harshly he must clamp down if he would close the gap. He found it necessary to increase his menaces against the "antiparty" group, and to blame them for the defects in Soviet planning. Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, by opposing his virgin lands development, gave him a beautiful issue on which he can and does skewer them...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
...with the antiparty group on the question of reorganizing industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted in my office. If therefore I once behaved correctly, I subsequently shared with them all the antiparty...
...night last week police came upon Oopa in the sleepy streets of Papeete, Tahiti's capital. In his hand, they said, was a Molotov cocktail. With him were 50 henchmen, and, in a city largely built of wood, all were carrying either firearms or firebombs. In a raid on Oopa's home, police rounded up more henchmen, found more bombs. At week's end Pouvanaa Oopa was behind bars, and no longer functioning as Premier...
...central character of Playhouse go's opening show last month (TIME, Sept. 29) was a polished, elderly tyrant named Joseph Stalin, who lived in a palace called the Kremlin. His courtiers-named Beria, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev-hated Stalin and hungered for his power. Together they plotted his death, and it turned out to be an easier job than they had supposed. Stalin suffered a stroke, and, as the CBS camera dollied in for the climactic closeup, Khrushchev dramatically refused...