Word: cominform
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...Moscow last week 68-year-old Joseph Stalin, his eyes filled with tears, buried one man who might have been his successor. Politburo Member and Cominform Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov died of arteriosclerosis in his 53rd year...
...kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...formation was revelatory-it said clearly that in the Soviet hierarchy Malenkov Was Zhdanov's replacement. Zhdanov's death raised Malenkov and Rumania's matriarchal but equally tough Ana Pauker to the top of the Cominform heap...
Died. Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 52, founder and chief of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform), Politburo member, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; of arteriosclerosis; near Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL...
...January 1947 Vidali-Contreras left Mexico for Russia, and a few weeks later turned up in Trieste. Until the Cominform attack on Tito, he was a loyal Tito man. But last week, to a meeting of Trieste pro-Cominform Communists he announced: The fight [against Tito] will be continued to the end." Another Trieste Communist official put it more bluntly: "This means that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito...