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<text id=91TT1744>
<title>
Aug. 05, 1991: Died:Lazar Kaganovich
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 61
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<p> DIED. Lazar Kaganovich, 97, the last surviving henchman of
Joseph Stalin; in Moscow. After going to work in a Kiev shoe
factory at 14, Kaganovich joined the Bolsheviks in 1911. Once
the Communists took power, he rose through party ranks and
directed the collectivization of Soviet agriculture in which 11
million peasants were killed or starved. After Nikita Khrushchev
succeeded Stalin, Kaganovich led an abortive coup against him.
Calling Kaganovich Stalin's "chained cur and toady," Khrushchev
had him ejected from the Politburo--far gentler treatment than
Stalin would have meted out.
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</body></article>
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