Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Stalin's death three months earlier had the men at the top seemed so jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
Soon after Stalin's death, Beria's colleagues became leary of Lavrenty. With a vast private army of secret police and 15 divisions of elite troops, the ambitious policeman was in a perfect position to grab control. After tailing Beria for a few weeks, the Party Presidium realized that his coup could come any moment, and so they decided to spring the trap. Acting Party Boss Khrushchev buttonholed Marshal Kirill S. Moskalenko, then commandant of the Moscow antiaircraft defenses, asked him bluntly: "Have you some men who are willing to risk their lives?" Replied Moskalenko: "I have...
Interest in Israel and loyalty to the "alien" Jewish religion were severely punished by Stalin, who sent hundreds of Jewish artists and intellectuals to jail and killed many others. Under Khrushchev, anti-Semitism seemed to abate. While there are now no Jews in the eleven-member Party Presidium, there are prominent Jewish officers in the army, and many Russian space scientists are Jews. In recent years Khrushchev's regime has permitted limited publication of works by famed Jewish Writer Sholom Aleichem, allowed Jewish theatrical and variety troupes to be formed. Three months ago, the Kremlin for the first time...
...Radio Warsaw disk jockey obviously did not know the score. Thoughtlessly he played a cantata by Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian written in praise of Joseph Stalin. Last week the square deejay lost his job. > In Russia, a soccer match between Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and Tiflis, capital of Stalin's native Georgia, was called off by officials who feared that pro-Stalin Tiflis fans would riot at the sight of Volgograd jerseys...
From East Berlin's Stalinallee to a Paris suburb's Rue Staline,* street signs and statues last week were torn down as Khrushchev's destalinization drive continued. The campaign proceeded without much opposition. An exception was Italy, where Stalin's second death was the center of debate and confusion within the largest Communist party in the West...