Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet newsorgans last week followed their reports of the "purge"' conducted in the Soviet Far Eastern Army by War Commissar Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov with significant references to the previously unheard of "First Independent Far Eastern Red Army" and "Second Independent Far Eastern Red Army...
...assumed in Moscow that Commissar "Klim" had evidently split into two forces the single great Far Eastern Army previously commanded by Soviet Marshal Vasily Bluecher, who "disappeared" in the purge (TIME...
Before Marshal Bluecher "disappeared" his authority was extended to unify under him the secret police of the Soviet Far East as well as its Red Army. To the All-Union secret police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Home Affairs in Moscow, this was a partial curtailment of authority, and likely was it that potent Yezhov helped to "break" Bluecher...
...Chapayev," which was screened in 1934, is the powerful story of a Red commander during the Revolution, written by the widow of the political commissar who accompanied him into battle. To those who do not understand the Russian language, the film offers English sub-titles in addition to fine choral music and the direction and acting of Russia's finest artists...
Certainly many Red army officers who served under him in the Far East were purged. One good reason why Russia showed little enthusiasm for the Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...