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...back as his introductory report to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956 et seq.), Khrushchev made passing derogatory references to Molotov's "contemptuous attitude" and to Malenkov's consumer-goods plan ("incorrigible boaster"). In his famous secret, weeping, emotional speech to the same body ten days later, in which he denounced Stalin as a "sickly suspicious," bloodthirsty tyrant, Khrushchev tried to take from Stalin even his chief glory as victor in war, and in doing so, told an anecdote which showed that Malenkov was close to Stalin's side during his most panicky...
...this point Malenkov may have made common cause with those old Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...
Immediately Presidium Member Andrei Kirilenko, a virtual unknown from Sverdlovsk, attacked Molotov, saying that the party conservatives were "responsible for the outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...
According to Warsaw, Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich all spoke during the debate, but on the next-to-last day, seeing the tide turning against them, all joined abjectly in a bout of selfcriticism. To get his unanimous vote of condemnation against them, Khrushchev was reported to have promised his crony Bulganin that sanctions would not be imposed on the four men: i.e., their lives would be spared. If Khrushchev so promised, would he keep that promise...