Word: commissar
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...Nobody over nobody, in the 1952 Olympic Games, according to Soviet Sport Commissar Nikolai Romanov in an exclusive Pravda interview. Romanov's final reckoning of the unofficial national team scores: Russia, 494 points...
...replace Panyushkin, the Russians last week proposed Georgy N. Zarubin, until last week Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain. Zarubin, who first came to the U.S. in 1939 as assistant commissar general of the Soviet exhibit at the New York World's Fair, was Ambassador to Canada when Soviet spies were caught redhanded stealing atom-bomb secrets. The Canadian Royal Commission later cleared him, produced an exchange of messages between the chief Soviet spy in Canada and his Kremlin boss which indicated that Zarubin was not to be informed of the spy ring in his own embassy...
...Commissar Antonovich quickly became a nuisance to his new masters. For speaking his mind, and especially for criticizing Russian officers and Russian blunders in Spain, he was expelled from the military academy. He asked for permission to leave the country. Instead, he was ordered to a pick & shovel job on the Moscow subway...
...Death came to this Old Bolshevik long since ousted from his post of Soviet Foreign Commissar...
Last week the laws of socialistic development caught up with Commissar Kopriva himself. Prague radio announced that he had been "relieved at his own request" of his duties as Minister of National Security. It was the same hollow phrase used by Kopriva to cover up what his bullyboys had done to thousands of Czech "deviationists," including former Communist Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis, who has been in jail-also presumably at his own request-since January...