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...losers have all been banished to the sticks. That old Kremlin durable, Molotov, presented his credentials as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
...Mikoyan's favorite pastimes was preparing New Year's gifts, and deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master...
...speech Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan recently made to Moscow University activists. One of the party's severest disciplinary judgments, "condemnation with a warning," has been pronounced upon Bulganin, said Mikoyan, for the Premier's vacillating stand last June, when, at the request of the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich "anti-party"' group, he chaired a meeting of the Presidium instead of turning the chair over to Nikita Khrushchev...
...Shook Up by Molotov...
...demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened? One week later [after the dismissal of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in Russia], these counter-revolutionary creatures recovered their confidence. Disintegration, they thought, was starting in the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners...