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...Gorbachev's personal envoy, Yevgeni Primakov, told British Prime Minister John Major that Moscow expected "grants, debt relief, investment." If they were not forthcoming, Primakov warned reporters, Gorbachev's position might be endangered and there would be "a risk of social uprising, of civil war." Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shcherbakov claimed that "there could be turmoil in the whole world...
...obtain confessions from the doctors we will shorten you by a head." The doctors were arrested and charged with having murdered Politburocrats Zhdanov and Shcherbakov and having attempted to poison some top Red marshals...
...present heavy stress on anonymous "collective leadership," he frequently uses the first person, unusual among party leaders. He has broken precedent by personally signing decrees of the Central Committee. He has allowed himself to be named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April 17, 1954) he graciously accepted the Order of Lenin (his fourth) and was made a Hero of Socialist Labor. At a Moscow reception he told a British newsman: "Churchill speaks for Britain, I speak...
...months ago, before Stalin died, nine Soviet doctors, at least five of them Jews, were arrested and found guilty of a terrorist plot ". . . to cut short the lives of Soviet leaders." They were said to have confessed to the murder of two Politburocrats-Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948) and Alexander Shcherbakov (died 1945) -and to "fiendish plans" to kill the top-ranking officers of the Red army. "These fiends in human shape," said Radio Moscow, "were hired foreign intelligence agents" financed by the U.S. Government and by "international Jews...
Sifting the Ashes. When Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov died in 1945, officially of a "heart attack," he held at least seven important posts, and had presumably a great future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...