Word: shvernik
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...Stalin, or are ousted and relegated, like Georgi Malenkov, to diplomatic exile, or, like Nikita Khrushchev, to virtual house arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins. If there were more precedent for honorable retirement, Leonid Brezhnev might have decided, on one of his bad days...
Died. Nikolai Shvernik, 82, loyal Stalinist and President of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954; in Moscow. Shvernik made his mark as a trade unionist, becoming leader of the movement in 1930 after his predecessor had been purged for showing too much interest in the welfare of workers; Shvernik transformed the unions into instruments of the state that put production before workers' rights, thus greatly assisting industrial growth...
...Khrushchev, trying to make the West believe he's a nice fellow, does not find that kind of truth palatable right now. So everyone on the Moscow stage denounced Molotov and agreed that he had never been any good, anyway. Back in 1937, reported Party Control Chairman Nikolai Shvernik. Molotov had been so "extremely cynical'' that when his car accidentally skidded off a Siberian road, Molotov demanded and got the conviction of a group of guiltless persons on charges of attempted assassination...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen...