Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin's axiom that to preserve the Red Army means to preserve the state, Generalissimo Stalin issued a whip-cracking new set of army regulations. The statutes ordered Red warriors to "respect seniors in command . . . observe strictly military conduct and the salute...
...resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described by U.S. correspondents as bullnecked. (Recently he insisted...
...hospital anywhere in England in the six months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about it, the answer...
...special train pulled out of Washington last week with 57 Operations Crossroads correspondents aboard. At San Francisco, where they will be joined by approximately 55 more newsmen, they will board the well-appointed command ship U.S.S. Appalachian, official press ship headquarters. (Some of the 27 reporters assigned to Kwajalein were already there, covering preparations...
Died. Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, 70, longtime (1919-46) President of the U.S.S.R'., biographer of Stalin (1,000,000 copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born "Papa" Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia's high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card...