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...Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile) and Joseph Stalin, who brought the charges. All 54 were executed, or disappeared in Siberia. What made Prosecutor Vishinsky's triumph as peculiar as it was complete was that all the accused seemed to make free admissions of their guilt...
Home from his foreign exploits, Khrushchev began preparing for his major triumph as First Secretary: dominating his first party congress. His 47,000-word speech was loaded with tables of production, learned quotes from Lenin, and exhortations to efficiency and greater production. It sounded like (and might easily have been) a rehash of one of Stalin's old speeches. In Stalin's mighty fashion, Khrushchev took lofty cracks at top party comrades, referred to Malenkov as an "incorrigible braggart," and told how it had been "necessary to correct" Molotov on an important ideological point...
Lysenko has not been shot, imprisoned or even sent to die in Siberia like his old rival Vavilov. He keeps his three Stalin prizes and his six Orders of Lenin, besides many of his honorary posts. But he knows what has happened to him. When interviewed by a Western newsman, he said with dignity: "I shall concentrate now on my scientific work...
...young Greek who arrived in Moscow in 1928 passed all the tests in applied terror and subversion at the Lenin International School. Three years later Joseph Stalin, embarked on his drive for absolute power, made Nicholas Zachariades boss of the strategic Greek Communist Party. Inside or outside Russia in the next quarter of a century there were few more devoted Stalinists...
What to Believe. A petition for the removal of Stalin's body from its place beside Lenin in the red granite tomb in Red Square was reportedly being circulated among party members. But the number of simple nonparty Russians queueing up for a look at the embalmed "leader and teacher" of Communism was as long as it had ever been. Asked if he had heard about the new line, an old Russian mumbled: "Criticism? Criticism? I am waiting for the mausoleum doors to open...