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Molotov's classmates, a wealthy liberal, put up 100,000 rubles to found a revolutionary journal to be called Pravda (Truth). Molotov was appointed secretary; his editor was a mustachioed Georgian, eleven years his senior, named Joseph Djugashvili (alias Stalin). The two pledged "eternal alliance," and Stalin took room...
Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to...
Charles Green is a New York appliance wholesaler with a talent for proxy fights. In his first fight in 1949, he won control of Minneapolis' & St. Paul's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. with the help of such people as Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld (alias Kid Cann), a...
But he was just another human animal. Some time before 10 o'clock last Thursday night, March 5, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, alias Koba (The Indomitable), alias Stalin (The Man of Steel), died.
There was just one Old Bolshevik left: Stalin sent out his new operatives after him. Halfway round the world, a young Spanish Communist named Mercader, alias Monar (with an assist from the New York Communist Party), found Trotsky in Mexico City and killed him with an alpenstock.