Word: shelepin
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...importance of this cold war objective to the Russians was clear: the offstage direction by A.N. Shelepin, chief of the U.S.S.R.'s security organization, the large financial stake, and the presence in Vienna of Khrushchev's son-in-law, the editor of Isvestia. The heavy Soviet news coverage indicated the full scope of their aim to further Communist claims before, during and after the Festival. While prior festivals were blatantly offensive, this one offered the drug of "Peace and Friendship...
Chain of Command. In another pertinent step, the Supreme Soviet last week ratified the appointment of Central Committee Personnel Chief Aleksander Nikolaevich Shelepin, 40, as the Soviet Union's top cop, succeeding the bloodstained General Ivan Serov (TIME, Dec. 22). A youthful political commissar in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war, Shelepin rose through the Young Communist organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation...