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Question of Veracity. In Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko warned that the time had passed when "encroachments on the independence and freedom of peoples can go un punished." Perhaps more significant, Premier Aleksei Kosygin called the first press conference held by a Kremlin leader in Moscow since Nikita Khrushchev's famous U-2 spy-plane disclosure in 1960. Though he made no suggestion of direct Soviet involvement in Indochina, Kosygin harshly upbraided the U.S. and launched the sharpest personal attack on Nixon to date by a Russian leader. The Soviet Premier, whose appearance was carried live on Russian...
...Russia's public celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany accentuated the trend. Stalin's name has appeared frequently and admiringly in a torrent of war memoirs and newspaper articles. The first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seemingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking the anniversary in very different ways. The following stones...
Hungary's brutal onetime Stalinist boss Matyas Rakosi ended up badly. In 1956, he was deposed by Nikita Khrushchev as part of a destalinization program and spirited off to the Soviet Union. According to unofficial reports from Russia, he died in 1963 in the Kremlin hospital...
...self-assurance and complete command. He had reason to. Unless the evidence that has been accumulating for weeks is completely illusory, Brezhnev is now on his way to gaining control of the Soviet Union's enormous power as no one man has been since the forced retirement of Nikita Khrushchev nearly six years...
Signs of trouble in the Kremlin began mounting after Dec. 15, when Brezhnev made a secret speech to the Central Committee about the lagging Soviet economy. Since his predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, was ousted principally because of poor economic performance, Brezhnev took care to blame economic planners and managers for the failures. To many Sovietologists, the postponement of the next Communist Party Congress from this month to an indeterminate date late in 1970 or even 1971 suggested high-level disagreements. Said Yale's Wolfgang Leonhard: "It means either that the leaders can't agree on policies or that there...