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...short the life of Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, the Kremlin's astute politi cal organizer of the Red army in World War II and one of the youngest (43) members of the Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1948 at the age of 52. "The criminals . . . incorrectly established the diagnosis of his ailment, concealing that he suffered from myocardial infarction, prescribed a regime that was contraindicated in the case of so serious...
...that in Russia your life may depend upon it. Before 1949, it was the height of intellectual fashion in the U.S.S.R. to praise an economic treatise written by one Nikolai A. Voznesensky. He won a Stalin Prize for it. Voznesensky was a favorite of Stalin's favorite Zhdanov, the smartest young economist on the Red horizon, Vice Premier at 42, and the Politburo's chief wartime planner...
Then several things happened to change the fashion. Zhdanov died. His old enemy Malenkov succeeded to the place of favor at Stalin's right hand, and Voznesensky disappeared-apparently clean off the face of the earth. P. Fedoseev, editor of the official magazine Bolshevik, was suddenly bounced out of his job for having praised the Voznesensky book, which, it now seemed, was nothing but "an idealistic motley of loose opinions . . . showing a total and absolute break with Marxism." What awful thing had Voznesensky said? He wrote that the Soviet system works so well that ordinary economic laws of price...
This proclamation cost Malenkov his job as party secretary and resulted in a vigorous campaign by Zhdanov for the revival of strict Marxist orthodoxy in the party. But Malenkov had bet on the right horse. Zhdanov died unexpectedly-in 1948. Soon afterwards, most of his partisans lost their jobs. The Five-Year-Planner Vosnesensky, Zhdanov's most ardent disciple, was liquidated so completely that his name was erased from the Soviet history books. Since then, Malenkov has apparently had a clear track...
...There has been no .serious suggestion that Zhdanov was murdered. Natural deaths do occur in the Soviet Union. - Last spring, when he left for Moscow as the new U.S. Ambassador, the State Department's top Russian Expert George F. Kennan expressed the cautious hope that Russian-U.S. relations might possibly be taking a turn for the better. Last fortnight Kennan told reporters in Berlin that his stay in Moscow has been one of "icy cold" isolation, little different from the treatment he got in Nazi Germany back in 1941 when he was interned as an enemy diplomat...