Word: vyacheslav
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...some time last summer a Moscow subway station stood nameless after painters hastily daubed over the signs proclaiming it Kaganovich Station. Other painters, printers and planners got busy all over the Soviet Union erasing the names of Lazar Kaganovich's comrades-in-disgrace-Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov-from factories, village squares and streets. Towns like Voroshilovgrad and Mikoyanabad, whose namesakes are still untoppled, continued to bear their old names-but there will be no additions to the roster. Last week, in the interest of efficiency, economy, and the vagaries of internal Russian power politics, the Presidium...
...next-most-powerful policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward...
...week competition for big names to face their various batteries of newsmen, TV's three big panel shows have kept invitations and entreaties flowing to the Kremlin. Once, CBS's Face the Nation thought it had won the game, and got ready to televise Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov. But Molotov suddenly reneged, agreed to go on only if questions were submitted in advance. NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's Press Conference ran into the same insistence on canned questions. All three persisted, and for one of them it paid...
Among the many dubious distinctions enjoyed by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is that of having guessed right about Lenin in 1917. It is a point that Molotov, in his 30 years of steely self-discipline in the service of the egocentric Stalin, seldom boasted about. Last week 67-year-old Molotov gave rein to his long-suppressed Bolshevik pride in an article that took up two-thirds of a page in Pravda...
...many of the few dozen Bolsheviks agreed with their leader's violent policy. Said leading Marxist Scholar Plekhanov: "Raving madness." But because Lenin's "April Theses"-put into effect the following October in the Bolshevik coup d'etat -had stood the bitter test of 40 years, Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming, at long last, his right to share Lenin's fame...