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THE WEEK-END JOINT

CONSERVATIVE

CHAVE-VT- OR YOU'VE HAD IT' MEAT SOCIET

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1959.

by GILES

Butcher

FILES

"In a minuto someone's going to stop that

Socialist saying 'You put 'em in"'"

London Express Service

THE

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Y

Thousands are asking:

IS OUR Is

ES. Georgi Malenkoy - bas won. He becomes the successor of Stalin

in the real sense of that

phrase he is the new die..

tator.

Only two day before the

A

turn

next?

NEWS-ANALYSIS OF DRAMA

IN MOSCOW... by M. F. Caulfield-

blow fell, such is the pace side Russia-i|| fact his

addresses

following the denth of Stalin almost. nothing was heard of him,

No great declarations came from him. There was no build-up as Stalin's heir. His pictures did not clutter Beria had been moving not directly indeed; but the Red Square like so many of Soviet melodrama, the same stord for the nearest much as the old master State security forces were pieces of Victorian_bric-x-

moved accused of "luck", "Cof: brac/" tahls appeared to be on amach to what could be Stalin himself had Lavrenti Perlu, aged 54; culled Soviet political when he marched to power. vigilance." And boss of Indeed, the Soviet Press 5. launched an attack on one- of the tight lips and the party. His proteges and For months he had been security was Beria..

Within 10 rmless pince-nez; Minister supporters sat on every swallowing up Malenkovites

days of man leadership, Malenkov. of the interior. of the USSR local council and Communist like great anaconda Stalin's death the doctors it seemed, was forced to

Parly committee;

In repre snake.

exonerated and re- relinquish the and head of security,

Georgia, the were

Secretary- interests in Ukraine, the Baltic States, leased, and the men who Generalship of his It looked as though he sented

the Com- henchmen had Malenkov Ministries, army units and the old Stalin

purged them hud

were munist Party-the key post shouldered

(and by inference the themselves purged, The from which Stalin had de. aside in the march to ab industrial concerns.

Mulenbay men) were name of Beria was again rived most of his powers. solute power; more and

purged. Beria's own men free from stain.. more the West was coming -

bourgeois- to believe that Berin, the

nationalists" of Pravda's arch-snooper, held the real authority in Russia,

"Who is there in Russia

asked

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Will we stay? (the

12

TONIGHT tons of thou- fulminations) replaced Why the silence? name has appeared in the

sands throughout-the-theme------

release of

move

tu negotiate with? the Soviet Empire who depend- The famous Ductors' Plot BERIA followed up this

reversed. when ed upon him must be living itself had been

with the Americans Churchill proposed Four in fear of their lives-or You remember the plot prisoners from the dreaded

when 12 Jewish doctors political camps; Power talks. Who is the, at least their jobs.

no doubt, cai- Jas?

There was plenty of solid who had been in attendance which he,

would guin him It was, in a way, a fair power behind Beria in his on Stalin were arrested and culated

bid for absolute authority. charged with conspiring to enormous support. question..

All this time there was Beria

nut was

only He along with Malenkov and murder Soviet leaders and

the strange silence of Minister of the Interior and Molotov was aware of the generals.

that The significance of that Malenkov himself. head of security. He was example of history the leader of one of the only one of a triumvirate event was that the blame Nominally he was Premier.

was laid

at Beria's door But after his first public most important factions in can eventually rule.

The deadliest job in the world

MENZHINSKY

After a drug, death,

-MAINLY FOR MILD-MANNERED MEN

YAGODA

After a shot, death.

As boss of the Soviet

police Beria have caused the deaths of more

secret

ought to have known that than 50,000 opponents. his job would bring him to audi end." He had only to think of all the other men in that post.

YEZHOV

For him, disappearance.

DZKHZHINAKY

Aller a speech, death post and into a mental hoine. Then he disappeared from the

had been sent to quell a local news. revolt. He joined the secret police there, rose to be boss and, at 35, had published book "praising Stalin's carly revolutionary activities).

Yagoda was a Pole - but not

although

be mild-mannered,

P

(Yezhov, by the way, gave the order in 1938 that Russlan wives of foreigners would no longer change their nationality or leave the country).

In the four months since Stalin died Malenkov's

Soviet Press only three times Beria's...appeared. constantly.

HOW

How close?

OW close Malenkov was to danger is indicated by the harte with which he tinally acted. Stalin's destruction of his great, rival, Troisky, was a maller of patient undermining tic years. But Malenkov. had # sudden decisive, to make desperate stroke.

It would be too easy to us- sume that the Malenkoy-Boria split was only a struggle for personat glorification. That must have been the mainspring. of course. But the two, men had differing policies.

more

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Malenkov is regarded as on orthodox Communist. ศ strict disciple of Stalln. Beria bos always been regarded as a man interested in the economic development of the

Soviet Union and Its technical prob lems the has been credited with the development of the Soviet atom bomb) than in Commu- nist domination of the world. There

<tazh

-howy have been a

дн

ni

On the question of the ria- fionalities (Soviet Republies such

Georgiu and the Ukrulae who are members the Union but are not,

Rus- Glans), the two men disagreed. Malenkov in Stalin's fetime supported a polley of treating these nationalities as "colonials." Berin sympathised with them- at Stalin's bler he made an im- passioned speech on their he half.

Will it change?

WHAT of

"new

Wine Soviet forcen polley

they

But in July 1920, only three hours after making a violent

Will that change? Was that critical speech against his Com- munist colleagues, he 'fell dead.

So of last it was Berla's turn Berla's polley or Malenkov's?

The answer to that is that - Menzhinsky, a mild-mannered

was the next was a keen horticulturist, with another police boss with probably both rivals agreed on Dzerzhinsky was there arst. Pollsh lawyer,

a love for rose growing.... mild manner. Beria set out to this point-agreed that He was a mild-mannered Pole secret police chief. He loved to

must have peace abroad until who became boss of the Cheka play the piano, to read good He was ruthless but in 1937 purge the purgers..

at home secret books. But he kept signing he was arrested, himself. He. For nearly 16 years he did the (the original Soviet

resolved "gię. (Berla, 19 death warrants until after R was shot the next year." nl rightin Stalin's eyes. Ho police) in 1918.

Will It

it change now? years old, had just joined the wrongly prescribed drug, he him- Vezhov, Best pure Russian to even gave the yearly address

Again, hardly likely. For selt üled suddenly, in 1934, Como US PA

get the job, became pollee chief, to the nation in 1981. But the Malenkov, the new dictator,

must know, that although he mitd manner Yagoda;

steeped in He was another mild-manneret year after the national spokes- For all his

man: was Matenkov...

has, rid himself" "of his main In secret police intrigue,moved man, lean, ascetic, an exponent zealous Dzerzhinsky, was

of the Stalin purges.

rivalrothers remain within the crushing anyone who opposed thto his Inte chief's office,

(Berla, meantime, was doing It did him no good. Within

materi the, now Soviet regime. By the early 20' he was reputed-to-well-out-in-Georgia, where ho two years bo was out of his

well

Now, Heria wults for trial.

was

James Bartlett zu the price or dictatorship.

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