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...baseness of front-page politics. On page two are articles from far-off lands. If not preoccupied with some trangression of life or liberty, they catalogue the struggle of popular liberation movements against repression, violence, poverty and hunger. Unusual was an account several weeks ago of Soviet politician Mikhail Suslov's funeral in Moscow. Not quite the enlivening task of trailing rebel guerillas through the hills of EI Salvador or Afghanistan, reporting the ceremony required little more than a simple, off-hand description of the event and a brief account of the man's history...
...Suslov, the article mentioned, was never captive to the ideology of the Soviet Union. With the ease of a charioteer covering dead-laden ground, Suslov survived Stalin's purges and reached the Soviet hierarchy's highest plane of power. Widely acknowledged as the kingmaker to the Communist party's inner circle, Suslov was instrumental in the ascendency of Chairman Nikita Khruschev to power in 1958, and again for his downfall in 1964. The many machinations of power politics never seemed to daunt the Soviet minister, whose ferocity found outlet for endeavor in uncounted tasks during the more than 40 years...
Since taking over from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, with Suslov's indispensable assistance, Brezhnev relied on his No. 2 man to support his policies in the Politburo. Suslov could also be counted upon to supply the ideological rationale for such demonstrations of force as the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the military occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. As a predictable factor in Soviet behavior, Suslov will also be missed by veteran U.S. specialists. In the arcane field of Kremlinology, Suslov, at least, could be depended upon to counsel tough actions to preserve ideological purity. Government experts predicted...
During his more than 60 years in the service of the Communist Party, Suslov remained an aloof, backstage figure. Born into a poor peasant family in 1902, he became a fervent Bolshevik at 16. He rose with extraordinary rapidity in the Communist Party hierarchy, soon becoming a protégé of Stalin's. The dictator gave Suslov major roles in a series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under...
DIED. Mikhail Suslov, 79, the Soviet Union's chief ideologue; after a stroke; in Moscow (see WORLD...