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Edward Carron hat contributed to many leading
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
newspapers and periodicals on the Communist regime ANASTAS IVANOVIĆH MIKOYAN
in action and its effects on the lives of the peoplo, both in the U.S.S.R. and in the puppet Statos, now under Soviet tutelage. The grandson of a Russian womon he spooks fluent Russian himself and has visited most of the Eastern European countries.
RUSSIAN ATOMS
Double Think
T
by Edward Carran
the Cornflakes Commissar
A
NASTAS MIKOYAN is the man who brought canning plants, slaughterhouses,
and food warehouses, cornflakes to Moscow.
He is small, dark, and wiry; an Armenian who speaks English as well as he speaks Russian: A man who has an enormous admiration for Spam and American Alaughterhouses.
He used to be known as the twenty-seventh Commissar. And thereby hangs a tale,
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The opposition he met from
Comm/stars deadpan
who reckoned that society lives by steel and plg iron alone was fantastic,
But Mikoyan and his canned mest Apit COACH were con- popular with the pubile nud he
survived purge after purge.
The fruth of the malter ycoms to be that Mikoyan is a Communist only because the custom of the innd demands that the
who men wield the power must be.
In a puritan regime, he has always been on the side of the
At the height of the compote, chocolate and Revalution. when
Brills densed milk." army under General Dunster-
It struck blm that there was ville was closing in on Boku.
of Mikoyan fought at
possibility the never any barricades,
providing fusslan soldiers with doctrinaire He was already a
these things. Russia had no revolutionary leader.
factories to en meat, no jam factories, The art of condens- ing milk
virtually un known.
HE strange ambivalence that affects the political thinking of Communist rulers shows no signs of resolving itself. The men of the Kremlin still display two very different attitudes: the one hand making an eloquent gesture of peace, the other throwing a bomb.
On April 18, Mr Zorin, bomb. "The whole of toiling and salled out into the Black Russia's representative at humanity" quote the Ru-
His twenty-six fallow Commissurs decided to run for it. They all boarded a ship
WAJ
by Les Armour
Sra. They were caught, brought manian. Commundat paper back, on't put into prison. But the United Nations Dis- cinteia-was swept by feel the Baku cockers stormed the armament Sub-Committee, Ings of boundless joy and hope.”, gaol and put them onto another said: "We stand for the
ship. This time Mikoyan wak complete
On August 20, 1953, the Com- prohibition of
persuaded to join them.
And he realised munist Pream announced that
that large, good life. In a land dominated atomic and hydrogen
The captain proved a trálter quantities of preserved foods by political intrigue, he has which can b transported long always kept his eye strictly en weapons, considering that such a decision would save ferred to as "a gain for peace"/ and sailed them into the arms listances, kept from season to the facts,
of the White Husslang end for their
British allies, All but minimum of preparation are in because his Rame was not on
Russia had exploded her fret hydrogen bomb. This was
"further notable delest"
T-
senach,
and enten
with
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the peoples once and for all the warmongers, and a bless- from the threat of atomic ing in the hands of the Soviet/likoyan were shot. He escaped fact among the prime requisites noutical
War...
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people."
The fret
Western hydrogen
Не
reerika
Unfortunately such apeeches by Russlan leaders bomb was not exploded until during the last few weeks March, 1954. It was greeted by noticed while he was waiting- have been punctuated by the Soviet delegate to the World fully expecting to be shot
managed 10 persuade the explosion of their own "Pace" Council, Nikolni Tik-were the British army's rations. Stain that the establishment of I was astonished to see the food processing plants must be atomic devices in Central honov, as a dangerous experi-
ment which had aroused British soldiero
eating cake. ch storm of indignation throughout
first target for the new canned chickon, and canned republic. He even won trips the world."
beef. They had
sweets, jam, to America and Britain to visit
He bas never troubled with
power, recognising the list of the twenty-six who for a modern industrial soclely, that any man in whose mind rests "the vial" 'dita' and know- had been released from prison. Without them, mom are at how of the ceonomic machine
the mercy of season. distance, will necessarily have all that what he
the and rot.
power he wants so long as he He
knows more than anyone else. --
Time abd me again
His first love is a "good deal." ho has fornyed out from the Kremlin Into the capitalist world to do business. Mostly he has sug- ceeded In doing profitable business,
Asin: tive tests were made in two weeks--the last only two days before Mr Zorin's words of peace.
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nuclear
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Ho is fond of his family, kind to his subordinates, and a bit cocksure in the presence of his bosses,
This double-think technique has also extended itself into the Soviet altitude towards the In Soviet hands, atomic effects of
pon, both for home consumption ment of the USSR Academy of Sciences, said that experimental
In public and in private he is Weapons are instruments Russian leaders, in their public and for export. for peace; in Western hands, pronouncernente, have vacilated
explosions of atom and hydrogen affable, charming, and just a Russian The first
hydrogen bombs were plainly A between two points of view bomb test, and indeed all sub- danger
great little cynical. they are implements of wor.
10 mankind. Large This has been the Russian at an atomic war would mean sequent nuclear tests, were made quantities of radioactive fallout the end of civilised life through- without any forewarning. No attitude since the end of the out
were formed and dispersed in the world, and that "an
concern Wan expressed by
the ctmosphere, some of it con- Second World War, and atomic war would mean the end Soviet scientists about the possl-
timing to exist for a long time, they have maintained It of civilised life in the capitalist blo danger's of radioactive
losing practically none of It
There has lethal qualities for years on end.
been only with enthusiasm if not with world.
The leading spokesman for consistency.
Two days later the USSR thing about which he has been the first proposition seems be
proposed But when Britain In 1950 the Soviet-inspired Marshal Zhukov. Mr Malenkov to test a nuclear
at embarked on the most extensive utterly determined and in which device World
believe ond "Peace" Congress re has supported
to date, 4 Appears to Island, bath points of Christmas
Russia series of atomic besta
And that is solved on a fetal bar of atomic view. Mr Krushchev and most developed a. crest
including a nuclear explosion of hundred percent. con-
his campaign to increase the weapons.
A year and a half other Russian leaders have stuck con about the possible after considérable severity. Inter, in October, 1981,
Radlovelive Stallu more solidly do the second pro- effects of such an explosion
fallout eir nutritional standards and range announced that the Soviet Union position perhaps seeing it as a On April 2, Troles Alexander and rain has since been record of diet of the Ruslan people. had exploded its fret atomle more valuable propaganda wen- ' Küzin, of the Physics Depart- ed in Japan.
fallout.
"THIS ROUND IS MORE HONEST AND HARD WORKING'
THAN EVER BEFORE AND WE'LL HAVE TO
GIVE IT ALL VERY EARNEST STUDY.......”
WRESTLING WITH DIFFIC LTIES:
UN. DISARMAMENT
SUB
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Every Russian susterlly pro- ramo since 1020 hus' sought to reverze this programme and Milcoyan has sometimes sufferçıl serious setbacks. Russian leaders from Lenin to Khrushchev Havo often appeared to crite very little about the well-being, even the mere physical well-being, of the people In whose Interests: they Bre supposed to Be governing.
But Micoyan has consistently urgod that only subjects with full stomachs are likely to be
safe, Discontent con only be allowed to spread so for and the case for the full stomach ham boen Mikoyan's constant thema at party congresses,,
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And the only ultimately successful way is to provide the things that the consumer wants, not the things you think he ought to buy.
This line Has not always been popular. No believer in Utopia would inko vary kindly to it. But Butecsilve WAYes
of economic chaos have constantly strengthened Mikeyan's hand,
Now, at last, something- though a very confused some- to thing-is being docé decentralise the cumbersorte Russian Industrial machine.
The hand of Mikoyan is very visible behind the party pro nouncementa.
At 60, he is still very fond of a good deal, **** ****
The line is at least safe. would hardly do a govermenent inuch good to shoot a man for demanding food for, the people, The other thing that Mikoyan Bucccssively, Minister of and Domestic Trade, First Deputy Prime Minister and General Trade-in-Chief has constantly plugged is more consumer choice. He does rio!! bellove that any., economy will work on the basis of the fulls scale production of the things the planners happen ig deelde bare the most satisfactory lo produce.
you organlab the l'economy, you have to penkande the purile to buy the things that are in the hope: 1f they dom'), svon, shooting thers: will do you no good. Tar died ingh make peor qurigunera, pa
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