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...ante again. The Czech economy could not take it. Last week, in a frantic effort to meet Moscow's demands, the Czech Communist regime was shaken up. The Czech Communist Party 1) abolished its governing four-man secretariat, shifted its job to a Soviet-style Politburo and Orgburo; 2) switched Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky from his top post as party general secretary to Vice Premier, which may or may not mean that he was kicked upstairs; 3) abolished the Ministry of Heavy Industry, spread its functions among five new ministries; 4) set up a new all-powerful Ministry...
Mikhail Suslov, member of the Bolshevik Party's Orgburo...
Alexei S. Kuznetsov, secretary of the Party Central Committee and member of the powerful Orgburo...
...active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...
...Last week Stalin called a meeting of the Politburo and Orgburo at Sochi, and said it was time to name his successors for all party and Government posts. Pursuing his idea to retire (taken in 1945), he wanted the mechanism of power transferred before his death to the form it will take when he is gone...