Word: voroshilov
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...speech, was proclaimed Premier and was shown snuggled up to Stalin and Mao in a doctored photograph, he has been neither seen nor heard from. China's Chou En-lai proposed the Korean talks and Molotov seconded them. Beria publicly redressed the "error" of the doctors' purges. Voroshilov announced the price cuts. Such popular gestures are the kind that might be presumed useful in building up Malenkov as the first among his peers and the benign father of all the Russias. Perhaps they add up to an essentially different conclusion: that Stalin's heirs have...
Another top party member, Marshal Voroshilov, has been moved upstairs to the honorary job of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet...
...that a lot of people lost jobs (or at least titles). Malenkov has been careful to find other jobs for most of them, although some seem to be out in the cold. He also tried to take care of the army, the likeliest center of opposition, by kicking Marshal Voroshilov upstairs to Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium (a figurehead job usually called "President of the Soviet Union" in the West), and by appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums...
Only Kliment Voroshilov, whom Stalin always calls Klim, regularly ribs back. Budu once heard him tell Stalin a story that was going the party rounds about a proposed monument to Pushkin: "Several sculptors submitted drawings . . . The one Stalin picked showed a massive statue of Stalin holding a book on which was carved in small letters: 'Pushkin's Poems.' " Stalin laughed first, loud & long...
...conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...