Word: rykov
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...Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat and shiny workman's cap. Yes, he had something to say to correspondents...
...After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
...Comrade Rykov had announced a bill permitting freedom of religious worship in fanatically anti-religious Communist Russia (TIME, May 27). Even though the bill was offered not as an aid to religion, but as a more subtle means of combating it, Dictator Stalin was vexed...
...knew that Rykov, described by New York's Evening Post as "a pale, sticky engineer of lowly birth," was a leader of the "Right Opposition" in the Communist Party; that glutinous Rykov had great influence among the peasants in the country districts, and that these peasants, despite ten years of ceaseless atheistic propaganda, remain hopelessly devout...
Therefore, last week, Comrade Rykov's various duties were declared too much for one man, and he was relieved as Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, i. e., the prime minister of Central Russia, though he still remained Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, i. e., the prime minister of all the Russias. Cergy Ivanovich Syrzow, a close friend of Dictator Stalin, succeeded to the first title. The suggestion was obvious to the most obtuse that further reactionary moves...