Word: shelepin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some other figures must be reckoned with: Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 59, who may be too old for the top job, but whose long party career may make him a kingmaker, if not a king; Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 63, beefy, belligerent Soviet Defense Minister, who controls the army; Aleksandr Shelepin, 43, ex-boss of the relatively sanitized secret police. Dark horses include Andrei Kirilenko, 55, a member of the Party Presidium, who surprisingly bounced back from disfavor; Gennadi Yoronov, 50, who was recently promoted to full membership in the Party Presidium with overall responsibilities in the make-or-break...
Said Khrushchev's top cop, Aleksandr Shelepin, piously: "You sometimes wonder how those people can sleep peacefully. They must be plagued by nightmares. They must hear the sobs and curses of mothers, wives and children of comrades who perished innocent...