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Novelist Maxim Gorky was a good friend of Stalin, but perhaps his dearest friends were Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigori Konstantinovich Ordjonkidze and Soviet Executive, Committee Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light...
...Avel Yenukidze, former secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, intimate collaborator with Nikolai Lenin, generally regarded as having been Stalin's "political mentor" after Lenin's death, long an intimate family friend not only of Stalin but of his second wife, Alliluieva, who as a child had been dandled on Yenukidze's knee...
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