Word: andrei
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Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
Molotov was a man Stalin could safely bring into world prominence without endangering his own prestige. (Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, No. 2 man in Russia, is scarcely heard of abroad.) Molotov is short, has a too-big head, and stammers. He looks like an unsuccessful Theodore Roosevelt. He drives himself as he drives his subordinates, holds conferences all day long, usually eats dinner at his desk. Even when he goes to a formal dinner he never wears a black tie (Litvinoff wore a white tie), and his only sartorial concession to his new job was to replace his cloth cap with...
...Leningrad's. Although Russia's army comes from as far south as the Caucasus and its material from the banks of the Volga, the direction of the campaign is entirely under the control of the Leningrad Military District, whose boss is Andrei Zhdanov...
...Soviet tradition that the No. 2 Bolshevik shall run the No. 2 Russian city. The job used to be held by Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov, whose bumping-off in 1934 gave the world a new word: purge. To succeed Kirov, Stalin picked chubby little Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, who up to that time had been a fairly inconspicuous Soviet administrator. He had picked up the Order of Lenin for successfully organizing a motorcar industry in the Nizni-Novgorod district. By the time Kirov was shot, Andrei Zhdanov, 38, had become a member of the Party's Central...