Word: bubnov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks to crow at dawn...
Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...
...week no member of the Politbureau or Steering Committee of Moscow's ruling Communist Party had ever ventured outside the Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill...
...Soviet mourning colors with grey as the workers' color." On the lowest step of the tomb stood the leaders of Communism last week to watch the parade. Dictator Josef Stalin in a soldier's kepi and greatcoat; Commissar of War Clemence Voroshilov; Commissar of Education Andrei Bubnov, et al. Correspondents watching the parade noted two facts: 1) that the uniformed Russian army was noticeably better drilled, better equipped than it was a year ago; 2) that cartoons and effigies of the enemies of Communism carried at the end of the parade no longer represented foreign imperialists but Soviet...