Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow last week the Red Army celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Four revelations accompanied the celebration. Defense Commissar, "Big Klim" Voroshilov, was responsible for the first...
...Moscow last week Joseph Stalin wrote a letter calling upon the working class of the capitalist world to organize for the support of the Russian "working class." First reply to this appeal came from a U. S. working man who is as comfortably fixed as any Soviet Commissar -little Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Cried Matty Woll: "The Soviet regime deserves no more support from organized labor in democratic countries than do the Governments of Hitler and Mussolini. . . .The American Federation of Labor rejects as impudent Stalin's appeal for support...
...consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...Leftist Government last week fired its Navy's Chief Political Commissar Bruno Alonso, also fired all political commissars appointed by him to keep an eye on the politics of Leftist sailors at the Cartagena base. The mayor of Barcelona announced that the Leftist capital has now been raided 23 times, the Rightists having dropped 528 bombs which wholly or partly destroyed 863 buildings, killed 918 persons, wounded 2,549 sufficiently for them to receive recorded treatment...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...