Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin, after copious draughts of vodka mixed with red pepper, had fallen asleep in his chair. Molotov, Malenkov and Beria, with fingers to their lips warned off intrusive domestics who might interfere with the great man's repose. While they guarded him, he had a dream...
Many other Russian cover subjects were liquidated, physically or politically-Beria, Bulganin, Malenkov, Molotov-after the emergence of Nikita Khrushchev. He made his first appearance on TIME'S cover a few months after Stalin's death, as head of the Economic Reform Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov...
...more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans-and the U.S. was plunged into the gravest crisis in Latin American relations since the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Army vehemently denied that its bullets had caused anything like 300 casualties. Many of the injured seemed victims of their own rioting. Of 13 confirmed Panamanian dead, five died in a burning building; two were killed by Molotov cocktails. Zone police had engaged in a blazing gunfight-to prevent mobs from overrunning a U.S. housing project inside the Zone. But the Army insisted that only nine rounds in all had been fired by regular troops at snipers during the first night-and the G.I.s were now using blanks, hoping to scare them...
...anyone was inclined to criticize this failure, or the costly palliative of buying grain from the West, Khrushchev had the standard answer: remember how bad things were under Stalin. In 1947, to earn foreign exchange, Stalin and Molotov actually sold grain abroad while in a number of areas "people had bloated stomachs or even died from lack of food." It was the first time Moscow had admitted that starvation took place in the Soviet Union since the forced collectivization of the early 1930s...