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...Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile) and Joseph Stalin, who brought the charges. All 54 were executed, or disappeared in Siberia. What made Prosecutor Vishinsky's triumph as peculiar as it was complete was that all the accused seemed to make free admissions of their guilt...
...cold-eyed, paunchy Chervenkov proved a little slow to toe the new post-Stalin line, slow to apologize to Tito and to repudiate "the cult of the individual." Three weeks ago the Bulgarian Politburo charged him with "violation of legality in the trial of Kostov," pronounced Kostov posthumously innocent, and freed his accomplices. Last week Chervenkov's comrades deposed him as Premier, relegated him to one of four Deputy Premiers. His successor: dandified Anton Yugov, 52, a home-grown hatchet man who, as Interior Minister in 1945, admittedly executed 2,000 political enemies. Tito's Yugoslavs will presumably...
Khrushchev subsequently had his ups and downs with Stalin. In World War II (and after becoming a full-fledged member of the Politburo), he was sent back to the Ukraine...
Bubnov was luckier than Nikolai Voznesensky, a Politburo member who disappeared in 1949 after his book on economics was denounced by Mikhail Suslov, a member of today's Presidium. Last week Moscow learned that Stalin had personally written the end to the Voznesensky story. It was one word-"execution"-scribbled across Voznesensky's dossier (Khrushchev called it "murder...
...Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the recent 20th Congress of the Communist Party, "that in a number of party and local government organizations women are seldom promoted to leading posts." Last week Khrushchev himself promoted Ekaterina Furtseva to be an alternate member of the Party Presidium (which succeeded the old Politburo), the highest post ever held by a woman in the Soviet Union...