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...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
...Khrushchev posed as an altruist. Advancing $563 million in arms and economic aid to the Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
Like a receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
Marshal of Artillery S. Barentsev wrote in Pravda that the successful production of ICBM's and atomic weapons had changed the whole character of modern warfare...