Nikolai Bulganin
Former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet UnionWikipedia
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Nov 2, 2026
Stephen GloverGUEST
I mean, partly perhaps for less ignoble reasons than the case of the Guardian in as much as the Daily Worker and the Communist Party of Great Britain, which it defended, was inclined to see the Soviet point of view.
Stephen GloverGUEST
And the Soviet point of view was that Britain and France had no business invading and indeed In early November, there was a kind of loose threat from Nikolai Bulganin, I think is pronounced his name.
Stephen GloverGUEST
One of the sort of triumvirate who was in charge with Khrushchev of the Soviet Union.
Stephen GloverGUEST
There's a reference, a loose reference to the possible use of rockets against Britain and France, which was taken as a nuclear threat.
Stephen GloverGUEST
I mean, partly perhaps for less ignoble reasons than the case of the Guardian, inasmuch as the Daily Worker and the Communist Party of Great Britain, which it defended, was inclined to see the Soviet point of view, and the Soviet point of view was that that Britain and France had no business invading.
Stephen GloverGUEST
And indeed, in early November, there was a kind of loose threat from Nikolai Bulganin, I think is pronounced his name, one of the sort of triumvirate who was in charge with Khrushchev of the Soviet Union.
Stephen GloverGUEST
There's a reference, a loose reference to the possible use of rockets against Britain and France, which was taken as a nuclear threat.
Stephen GloverGUEST
Anyway, I'm moving away from what you asked about newspapers.
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On the evening of February 28, 1953, Joseph Stalin summoned four of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union to his country residence outside of Moscow.
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They were Leventry Beria, overseer of the Soviet security apparatus, Georgy Malenkov, one of Stalin's most trusted party administrators, Nikita Khrushchev, another fast-rising party boss, and Nikolai Bulganin, a senior government official and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
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Now, dinner at Stalin's Dacha was rarely relaxing.
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The dictator routinely kept senior officials awake until absurd hours, drinking, watching films, and subjecting them to jokes, questions, and occasional humiliations.
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But Mikoyan seems to have maxed out his luck during the volatile years of Stalinism.
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He was still alive when the Soviet dictator died in 1953, but to survive by an inch under Stalin was nevertheless a very different affair from surviving the dogfight that would follow Stalin's death.
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The newer generation was represented principally by Malenkov, Khrushchev, Beria, and Bulganin.
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So, a few words about them.
Avner CohenGUEST
They told the British, the French, and the Israelis to withdraw from the Suez Canal.
Avner CohenGUEST
And if not, Bulganin said the, uh-- it's even before Khrushchev, that the Soviet might use even-- There was a veiled threats of using, uh, nuclear weapons against those countries.
Avner CohenGUEST
Israeli delegation went to France.
Avner CohenGUEST
France did not have nuclear weapons.