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...warning him against rising Croat separatism before Tito was ready to acknowledge it. Other prominent Serbs who resigned under pressure were Serbian Central Committee Secretary Latinka Perović and Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. The premier of Slovenia, Stane Kavćić, and a Serbian member of the Presidium, Koca Popović, resigned voluntarily out of sympathy. Vague charges of "anarcho-liberalism" were leveled at those purged. Still Tito's tough action delivered the message to the Serbs and the Slovenes that they had no more claim to special privilege than the Croats...
Moldavian party he completed the collectivization of peasants formerly under Rumanian rule. In 1952 his success in carrying out such unglamorous tasks bore fruit. Brezhnev finally broke into the Kremlin establishment as an alternate member of the Presidium (now the Politburo) under Stalin and as a Secretary of the Central Committee...
After the dictator's death, Brezhnev owed his advancement to Khrushchev, who had recognized his abilities and loyalty in the Ukraine. Khrushchev entrusted his protégé with supervision of his vast "Virgin Lands" agricultural scheme and later made him a full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall...
...outmoded railway system during the early 1930s, ordered malingering workers shot. Later entrusted with responsibility for postwar farm collectivization, he was blamed by Stalin for agricultural failures and purged from the Politburo. However, he re-emerged shortly after the dictator's death as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a post he held for the next nine years...
...Brezhnev is handicapped by a bothersome pecking-order peculiarity of the Soviet system. As General Secretary of the Communist Party, he is the Soviet Union's most powerful official. On diplomatic protocol lists, however, he stands only No. 3. First is Nikolai Podgorny, who as chairman of the Presidium holds the position of head of state. Second is Aleksei Kosygin, who as Premier ranks as chief of government...