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...When Nikita Khrushchev opened the gates of Stalin's concentration camps and set free hordes of political prisoners, he proudly boasted that "only lunatics" could object to life in Russia. So it seemed only logical for Nikita to deal with the intellectual critics of his own regime by locking them up not in harsh prisons-but in lunatic asylums. As men in white coats largely replaced the policemen, hundreds of writers, artists and other outspoken objectors to Communism vanished from the Moscow scene, to reappear in psychiatric hospitals as "mental cases...
Seven months ago, Nikita Khrushchev was bounced as boss of the Soviet Union for such character flaws as "phrasemongering." There hasn't been a phrase mongered or a shoe banged within the Kremlin's henna walls since. Where flamboyant Nikita rarely made an unpublicized move, his successors, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, go about their business so self-effacingly that days go by without the slightest mention of them in the Soviet press...
...Sovietologist points only half in jest to the recent official photo of the Kremlin talking to the cosmonauts on the last Russian space flight. Whereas Nikita would have appeared all alone, beaming into the telephone, some dozen officials were hovering around. Up front, seated at a desk, were the top men: Brezhnev was actually talking to the spacemen; Kosygin had the other telephone on the desk beside him, and Mikoyan, by stretching hard, just barely made the scene...
...them in any order they saw fit. Well aware of the outside world's careful scrutiny, the Kremlin seems determined to give nothing away in what is no doubt a genuine balancing act, for the time being at least, among the quiet men who have followed the ebullient Nikita...
Like the third little pig of legend, Russia's new leadership recognizes the wisdom of building in brick. Nikita Khrushchev for years had huffed and puffed in favor of prefabricated concrete slabs, relegating the lowly brick to minor status in the nation's crash housing program. But last week, when the new economic plans of Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were disclosed, the brick was back in the planners' priorities. That alone would not keep the wolf from the door, but some of the other decisions announced would certainly help...