Evening star., 1946-06-05
Soviet Ranks Stain
As Greatest Amonu
Her Historical Leaders
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having no fifth column, and for wise
planning and thinking for them and
their future all the time.
Stain Has Willing Backers.
The Russians have great faith in
Stains new five-year plans and are
quite certain that by putting the
effort and sacrifice into the work
that he says is necessary they are
going to emerge the greatest indus
trial country in the world, the coun-
try with the most secure political
and economical system and eventu-
ally the country with the most spir-
itual as we'll as material surpluses.
Any beliefs, fears or hopes here
or elsewhere that there is opposi-
tion to Stain in Russia is nonsense
There is no political group striving
to grab power, for the Communists
have the power and they are Rus
sla's only party and will continue SO.
There is no such thing as a gen.
erals group or clique. There are
generals and marshals by the dog
ems. yes, but they are nothing as a
group more than fighting men and
would be the most embarrassed men
In the Soviet Union to hear them
selves referred to as a bloc seeking
power.
Who are the men under Stain
and what Importance should one
attach to them as possible success
sors to the Generalissimo who, some
day, of course, must step down or
die, as bad as this would be for the
U. S. S. R.. and, as lot of foreign
diplomats think, bad for the United
States, too?
Man of Many Titles.
Stains present jobs and titles are
Chairman of the Council of Min
listers, which means he's Prime Min
lister.
Head of all the armed forces.
Secretary general of the Central
Committee of the Communist party
Head of the powerful Politburo.
Chairman of the Organization
Committee of the Communist party
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet.
Vyacheslav Molotov, the Foreign
Minister, appears to rank next to
Stain, for he holds, in addition to !
what here would be the Secretary OF
States job, the post of first assist
ant chairman of the Council of Min
listers. This makes him Vice Pre-
mier.
Molotov is also a high-ranking
member of the Politburo and dep
uty to the Sapreme Council, a party /
man of great drive, ability and de-
votion to it's country and its causes
Although member of the vital
Central Committee of the party,
Molotov is not one of its secretaries,
nor is he on the Organization Com
mittee of the party. This fact may
or may not figure in his future.
Subordinate Chieftains.
There are three relatively young
men who have risen rapidly with the
end of the war: !
Marshal L. P. Beria.
Gen. A. A. Zhdanov.
G. NJ Malenkov.
They are all younger than Stain,
Molotov or Nikolai Shvernik, the
new President of the presidium of
the Supreme Soviet-Russia's Presi- |,
dent
Taking them individually and
probably in order of their import
ance at the moment-and I stress
at the moment:
Zhadanov, so years old, chairman
of the Supreme Soviet's Council of
the Union-one of Russia S two leg
islative chambers. (The Council of
Nationalities is the other) He's a
full member of the Politburo, Sec
retary of the party's Central Com
mittee and member of the organiza-
tional committee of the party, dep
uty to the Supreme Soviet, head of
the party organization in the great
city of Leningrad and chairman of Il
the Allied Control Commission for
Finland.
He is one of the most intelligent
and well educated men among the
Russian leaders and one can appre-
ciate his important party connec-
tions which mean a great deal.
Malenkov is A, member of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a
full member of the Politburo now, a
secretary of the Central Committee
of the party and deputy to the ST. /!