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...morning last week the Russian state radio canceled its regular programs, and for the next three hours droned out details of a great Moscow retreat. It was a 25,000-word document written by Russia's new No. 2 man, Nikita Khrushchev and it told the hitherto hidden story of Soviet Communism's failure to provide food for its subject peoples. Items...
Almost as astounding as the blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned...
...Nikita Khrushchev, cold and colorless protégé of the late Joseph Stalin, was formally fixed as No. 2 man in the new Soviet firmament. The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee last week elected Khrushchev its first secretary, i.e., party boss (TIME, Sept. 7), a post that makes him second in power and influence to Premier Georgy Malenkov...
Those who watch the stone-faced panjandrums of Communism elbowing for position atop Lenin's tomb on rubric days concluded last week that fast-rising, tough Nikita Khrushchev, 59, First Party Secretary since last March, is now No. 3 man. Khrushchev is a dogged bureaucrat who rose to power in a succession of nasty jobs-gauleiter of the unruly Ukraine and boss of the restless collective farmers...
When the nationalities resisted, they were slaughtered like cattle, but the results were often different from what the Kremlin intended. In 1941 millions of Ukrainians and a host of Chechens and Tartars deserted Soviet ranks and welcomed the German invaders. Retribution came in 1945, when Stalin sent Nikita Khrushchev, the Hammer of the Ukraine, to wipe out whole villages of dissident Ukrainian peasants (TIME, Jan. 12). Chechens and Tartars were "resettled" beyond the Urals...