Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the Red Revolution, Comrade Kollontay appeared in the world spotlight as Soviet Commissar of Public Welfare. Upon her was palmed the lie that Russian women had been "nationalized," that she had issued the decree. "Frequently at that time," Comrade Kollontay has said, "I was obliged to leap out of tramway cars when people [Russians] recognized me. I was often forced to listen to the most unbelievable calumnies, the grossest insults...
...four times as large as the rest of Europe, with a population of 154 millions, is a market no country can afford to ignore. Fascist Italy has granted official recognition of the Soviet. Last week while U. S. businessmen agitated for Soviet recognition (see p. 13) Isador Liubimov, Assistant Commissar of the Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Trade, was formally wined and dined in Rome, after which he and representatives of the Fascist government signed an agreement whereby Russia will buy $10,000,000 worth of Italian manufactured goods before July 1, 1931: $2,500,060 to be spent on ships...
Into this last statement might have been read a threat of Soviet bovcott against the U. S. unless the Fish Committee exonerated Amtorg. In Moscow, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov enunciated this threat explicitly. If the committee was not impressed, the business world that does a $100,000,000 per year business with Russia was. The New York Journal of Commerce took the committee to task for trampling about in a field of international trade where it had no business...
...Moscow a similar order was issued not long ago by Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov. He was curious to know what the families of 715,000 Red Army men think of Dictator Josef Stalin's program of "liquidating" (exterminating) the kulak or "rich peasant" class and herding poor peasants into Communist "collective farms" (TIME...
Came news from Moscow last week that the Dictator was furious at his War Chief's untimely curiosity, had "warned" him by cashiering his right-hand man, Under-Commissar of War Yosiph Unshlikht, who was then transferred to a seat on the Soviet Economic Council. If the Commissar of War wants to keep his own job. correspondents averred, he must curb his curiosity...