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...only people who seemed to have put destalinization to some advantage so far were some deviationists in Russia. In a burst of articles the Moscow press last week revealed that party meetings called to criticize the "cult of personality" frequently became critical of the party itself. Said Pravda: "We cannot disregard the fact that some rotten elements are trying to make use of criticism and self-criticism for all sorts of ... anti-party assertions [and are] repeating the hackneyed, slanderous inventions of the foreign reactionary propaganda...
...Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
...slavishly praised and served had really been a murderous megalomaniac. Some 15,000 agitators fanned out through Stalin's homeland of Georgia, where, as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan admitted last week, "some people" had "taken it hard" (TIME, March 26). In a cautious, 7,000-word article, Pravda last week broke the news of Stalin's disgrace to its readers...
...party conference called to agree on the new line, Premier Otto Grotewohl won the big cheers by criticizing Minister of Justice Hilde ("Hanging Hilde") Benjamin for failing to safeguard citizens' rights. Red China finally broke its silence about the disgrace of Stalin, and broadcast without comment Pravda's first cautious editorial...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...