Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January fresh units fought their way into Kerch, but were halted by German tanks. To head this front, Moscow brought from the north bullnecked, shrewd-eyed General Andrei Yeremenko, a 51 -year-old Cossack who headed Stalin grad's defense...
...with such a declaration did not surprise U.S. diplomats. When Oumansky went to Mexico last June, he seemed to be a big man for a little job, in a post which has only recently been raised from a Ministry to an Embassy. In experience and prestige, Oumansky certainly outranks Andrei Gromyko, the new Russian Ambassador in Washington...
...Dark, swarthy, forceful Andrei Zhdanov is the Leningrad party boss, a member of the Soviet Union's omnipotent nine-man Politburo, an intimate friend of Stalin. Before the war, he urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness...
...Handsome, dark-eyed Andrei Andreyev, who looks something like Eden, heads the U.S.S.R.'s Parliament, the Supreme Soviet. A peasant's son, he became a munitions worker, joined the Bolsheviks during World War I. His first key post was as head of the party's Control Commission, which keeps the Reds on their toes, purges those who do not conform. Andreyev's mind is intelligent and subtle. Close to Stalin, he is definitely one of Russia's up-&-coming...
Last August Andrei A. Gromyko, 35, acting head of the Soviet Embassy, was named Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., succeeding Maxim Litvinoff (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week Andrei Gromyko, a modest, bookish comrade, finally got around to the formality of presenting his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. For this occasion, Ambassador Gromyko, an able diplomatic chef, dished up some minute cuts of political meat, skillfully smothered in diplomatic parsley...