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Khrushchev made his point clearer: the accused had had a hand in the famous "Leningrad Case." This was a conspiracy that had cost the life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary, Secret Police Boss Viktor Abakumov and three subordinates were executed in December 1954 for their role in it. Said Khrushchev menacingly last week: "Malenkov, who was one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, simply was afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." If Malenkov...
...Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen...
...comment on the limits of Khrushchev's power (compared with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except...
During the Anglo-French invasion of Suez, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin had pointedly reminded Britain that it was within range of Russian missiles ("There are countries now which need not have sent a navy or air force to the coasts of Britain, but could have used other means, such as rocket technique"). The same warning may soon be made to Russia itself. The Eisenhower-Macmillan Bermuda agreement to provide Britain with U.S.-supplied missiles (TIME, April 1) did not represent a basic shift in the East-West power balance relationship, but it did represent something that the Russians could...
MOSCOW, Feb. 19--Premier Nikolai Bulganin, bidding for Arab rejection of the Eisenhower doctrine, said today the United States has insane plans for world domination. These can plunge the peoples of the Middle East into the "hell of atomic and hydrogen war," he declared...