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...tribune of victory the energetic pragmatist, who likes to voice his cornfield contempt for theoreticians, now demanded to be regarded as the first of living Communist theorists. Soviet speakers had lately taken to eulogizing their new Vozhd, or supreme chief, as they did Stalin, in personality-cult terms ("Initiator and soul of our glorious work...
Dressed in a new dark tunic, Joseph Stalin made his fourth public appearance within a month. Occasion: the opening session of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, where the Vozhd listened for an hour and a half to the 1951 budget speech. His other sorties: two meetings of the All-Union Supreme Soviet, and a trip to the Bolshoi Theater to see a new opera, based on Novelist Elizar Maltsev's From the Depths of the Heart...
...handed over to Tito. But at the meetings Byrnes showed great flexibility on details ; although opposed in general to internationalized cities (too much like Danzig), he was even willing to see Trieste put under international control for five or ten years. Molotov waited quietly for word from his Vozhd (boss) in Moscow...
...substance the Soviet Vozhd* says this: 'We Russians intend to go on doing exactly as we please within the zone of the Red Armies whether you like it or not. The Soviet Union is going to rely primarily on good solid political and military measures and only secondarily on a possible United Nations Security organization. You cannot oppose us without endangering the common war effort...
...Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking a red beard, humbly explaining the new policies of VOZHD to British newshawks. Said...