Word: azerbaijan
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...Lavrenty Beria's purgers "reorganized" and "consolidated" the government of 1) the Baltic Republic of Latvia, enslaved by the Red army in 1940, lost, and recaptured in 1944; 2) the Moldavian Soviet Republic, part of which was snatched from Rumania; 3) the Caucasian Mountain Republic of Armenia; 4) Azerbaijan, which hugs the Caspian Sea near the northern border of Iran. In all four "republics" the pattern was the same; a drastic tightening up of Soviet internal security, evidence perhaps that the death of Stalin encouraged the suppressed nationalities of the Soviet Union to hope for more freedom...
...Presidium (a figurehead job usually called "President of the Soviet Union" in the West), and by appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made an alternate member of the Party Presidium, the first time that a Moslem has gotten a top political job in Russia...
...Central Committee (former membership: 71) which included for the first time scores of young provincial Communists, drawn in from the so-called Soviet Republics (e.g., Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan). Chairman of the Committee: Joseph Stalin...
...believe he may yet come to power: wily, vain, 77-year-old Millionaire-Landowner Ahmed Qavam. Qavam onca even outsmarted the Russians. Right after the war, the Reds demanded an Iranian oil concession, and gave emphasis to their demand by hanging on to Iran's northern provinces of Azerbaijan, Gilan, Mazan-daran, and parts of Khurasan. Qavam, then Premier for the third time, helped get the Reds out by agreeing to set up a joint Russo-Iranian oil company, subject, of course, to the Iranian parliament's approval. Imagine Qavam's surprise, after the Reds left, when...
When the Russians occupied Azerbaijan, Mohammed Mossadeq was in the front row of those calling for their expulsion. After the U.N. forced the Russians to evacuate, he turned his attention to his old enemy, the British. He still opposed any pro-Russian gestures, like Premier AH Razmara's $20 million trade treaty with Moscow, but Red expansion worried him far less than British exploitation of Iran...