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...Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin's heir apparent). In fact, Malenkov put his heresy to the test in a 1946 party address: "We have people, rightly called bookworms, who have quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every occasion . . . Instead of laboring to think up something...
...October 1947, Andrei Zhdanov laid down the line at the first meeting of the Cominform. The U.S., said Zhdanov, had launched "an aggressive and openly expansionist policy" aimed at the "preparation of a new imperialist war." He added significantly: "Between the wish of the imperialists to loose a new war and the possibility of organizing such a war, there lies a vast distance...
...author chosen to give this attack on authority a look of authority was Yuri Zhdanov, a biologist and son of the late Andrei A. Zhdanov, member of the all-powerful Politburo. In his plea for intellectual unorthodoxy he quoted texts by the leading authoritarians of Communism, Premier Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung. Obviously, the scientific "line" is still in the same strong hands...
Most striking was the complete disappearance of N. A. Voznesensky, an amiable younger member of the Politburo, in charge of five-year planning. Voznesensky, something of an opportunist, had switched from Malenkov's camp to Zhdanov's. In March 1949 Voznesensky was fired. For a while, slighting and insulting references to him appeared in the Russian press. After that, it was as if Voznesensky had never been. For example, a recently published popular Soviet history book omits his name from a wartime list of Politburo members. George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth," which rewrote history to suit...
...recent decrees devaluating the ruble and reducing prices were signed by Stalin and Malenkov. Last November, on the 32nd anniversary of the October Revolution, Malenkov was orator of the day-an honor accorded to Zhdanov in 1946, to Molotov in 1947 and 1948. On Stalin's 70th birthday, Malenkov's tribute took precedence over Molotov's. More significant perhaps than such fine points of Soviet place are some signs that Beria is an ally of Malenkov. With party and police backing, Malenkov stands at the pivot of Soviet power-for the moment...