Word: bulganin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When well-established teams break up -such as Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, or Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev-one partner usually gains and the other loses. Last week, as Nikita Khrushchev gallivanted across France with a new team he obviously trusted more (his wife and family), news leaked out of Moscow about his luckless old road-show sidekick, Marshal Bulganin...
...Bulganin's private 1955 explanation to Eden at Geneva, as to why Khrushchev & Co. could not then agree to German reunification: The new Khrushchev regime was "reasonably solidly based in the country," but if they had gone home proclaiming the reunification of Germany, "neither the army nor the people would understand, and this was no time to weaken the government. The people would say that this was something Stalin would have never agreed...