Word: pervukhin
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...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), Kaganovich, Malenkov, Pervukhin, Saburov and Shepilov -seemed like candidates for dismissal from the party, prison or worse...
...actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
Both of these former Soviet planning chiefs, the one now ambassador to East Germany and the other manager of a factory on the Volga, stepped to the rostrum to grovel. Pervukhin tried to hold back a bit: "Though I was unable to discern the anti-party group's plans, when the group openly raised the question of changing the leadership, I did not agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev...
...presiding. He has been on the skids ever since. After Khrushchev fought off the Presidium's move to replace him by summoning the whole Central Committee to overrule them, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich were promptly denounced as "antiparty intriguers" and banished to the sticks; Presidium Members Saburov and Pervukhin were set down soon after...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...