Word: nikita
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...seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
...death or disgrace of all his active rivals did not mean that Nikita was without opposition. In his climb to power, Khrushchev had downgraded the secret police, smashed the Stalinists, shaken up the bureaucrats who run Russian industry, and humiliated the army. Each of these victories had earned him new enemies in the middle ranks of Soviet officialdom-enemies who would be ever alert for weapons with which to cut him down...
...scientists who have built ballistic and nuclear weapons and launched humanity into space. And because men who must be allowed /to think at their jobs cannot be prevented from thinking at home, the task of governing Russia grows more complex by the day. To stay at the summit, Nikita Khrushchev cannot afford to be as ruthless as Stalin-which means that he must be far more skillful...
...Nikita was grateful then. But from that moment on, Nikita Khrushchev must have known Zhukov had to be destroyed. For if Zhukov could throw his tanks behind Khrushchev, he could also, at some future date, throw them against Khrushchev...
With a quip and a toast from Nikita Khrushchev, the great Middle East war scare collapsed. For the embarrassed Syrians, there was no concealing the loud whistle of escaping...