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- Aug. 05, 1991: Died:Lazar Kaganovich
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- 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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