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Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina was always the apple of her father's eye-but what an eye it was! Her dad was Iosif Stalin, and Svetlana was among the very few to whom he ever showed any real tenderness. In notes to her, full of fatherly affection, Stalin signed himself "Papochka" (little daddy). Even though he objected to her choice of a husband in 1951, the Soviet dictator staged a $500,000 czarist-style marriage feast that went on for two weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin...
Quick Jump. Rumania, which like Czechoslovakia has been slow at reforming itself, got busy immediately. Rumania's Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last week fired from his Politburo two oldtime Stalinists-Minister of Education Miron Constantinescu and Central Committee Secretary Iosif Chisinevschi, long No. 2 man to Gheorghiu-Dej himself. The expulsions, announced Bucharest smugly, took place at a Rumanian party plenum which ended only 48 hours after the downfall of Molotov...
...Khrushchev's power (compared with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except that he had been...
Ljuba. Rumania's new secret power, says Dr. Cohen, is another woman: Ljuba, brunette Bessarabian wife of Vice Premier Iosif Chisinevschi. No prude where Soviet officers were concerned, Ljuba got her husband the fat job of food-procurement officer for the Soviet army of occupation in 1946. Chisinevschi quickly moved up the power line and today, by virtue of his wife's cozy relations with the Soviet embassy, bosses the government. In a beautiful pavilion near Bucharest, in the formal royal park where King Carol's Magda Lupescu once frolicked, attractive, dark-eyed Ljuba holds brilliant Thursday...
Colonel General Iosif V. Shikin, chief of the Central Political Administration of the Soviet Armed Forces, i.e., boss of all Red army "indoctrination...