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...Khrushchev, trying to make the West believe he's a nice fellow, does not find that kind of truth palatable right now. So everyone on the Moscow stage denounced Molotov and agreed that he had never been any good, anyway. Back in 1937, reported Party Control Chairman Nikolai Shvernik. Molotov had been so "extremely cynical'' that when his car accidentally skidded off a Siberian road, Molotov demanded and got the conviction of a group of guiltless persons on charges of attempted assassination...
...anti-party man who "had joined the Devil, but then apologized." The delegates applauded, and aging 80-year-old Voroshilov, sitting as an obscure member of the 41-man Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention of his name and made a few notes. The other anti-party villains-Molotov (relatively safe in Vienna...
...Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva told the Congress that Lazar Kaganovich was personally responsible for the execution of hundreds of railroad executives in the 1950s; the Ukraine's Nikolai Podgorny labeled Kaganovich a "degenerate" and a "real sadist." A Byelorussian delegate charged that former Party Secretary Georgy Malenkov helped the secret police frame innocent men by charging that they belonged to an anti-Soviet underground movement...
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power...
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power...