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...Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 secret speech to the 20th Soviet Party Congress opened a debate among Marxists over how faithful Communists were to live with the truth that an estimated 20 million murders had been committed in their name by the Stalinist bureaucracy between 1934 and 1953. Khrushchev denounced Stalin as an evil genius who was able to seize control of the party by some terrible historical accident. Medvedev's view is less simplistic. He argues that in every social upheaval there is a fanatical fringe whose idealistic elements can easily be infiltrated by opportunists and criminals. Stalin...
...Council of State, along the lines of similar bodies in Bulgaria, East Germany and Rumania, that would give him the top state job as well as the ranking party post. Other speculations held that Brezhnev would shove Kosygin aside and take over both government and party leadership just as Nikita Khrushchev...
Shades of Nikita. Podgorny's position may have proved to be stronger than Brezhnev had suspected. In recent months Brezhnev has somewhat softened his positions on Yugoslavia's independence, mutual troop reductions and diplomatic deals with the West; he has even personally forced the intransigent East Germans to agree to concessions in the Berlin negotiations. As a result, a number of disgruntled marshals and industrial managers have rallied round Podgorny, who has become the rep resentative of the extreme hard line within the Kremlin...
...imply that wrestling does not will have its attractions. The two tag team matches on the evening's program were well done. The crowd was disappointed when Mike Pappas and Rene Goulet (no kin to Robert) lost to Ivan and Igor. The presence of the evil manager. Nikita, on the side of Ivan and Igor did nothing to enhance their popularity. Nonetheless, Ivan and Igor in their bright red suits, did have some supporters. Said one man, who identified himself as an assistant professor of English and tutor in Lowell House: "I'm always happy when the crimson side wins...
...visit? Since the bulky, heavy-browed Brezhnev, 64, holds neither state nor governmental station, technically he was not entitled to official honors. But he made it plain that he wanted full red-carpet treatment, and he knew that the French saw his first trip to Western Europe since succeeding Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 as an opportunity to improve relations...