Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
Thus an aggressive leftist minority seized control of Rumania before Britain and the U.S.-and quite possibly before Russia, whose Commissar had just arrived on the scene-had a chance to make good their pledge of maintaining a representative interim Government...
...social revolution epitomized in Poland's Warsaw Government. By agreeing that the Warsaw Government should be "reorganized on a broader . . . basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad," by agreeing to a free Polish election supervised by Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and the U.S. and British ambassadors to Moscow, the U.S. and Britain had in effect recognized the Warsaw Government and withdrawn recognition from the Polish Government which was closest to the one Britain had gone...
...Peasant-born Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov is a resolute, imperturbable man. His was the determination that transformed a clumsy, sloppy, commissar-ridden Red Army into a gigantic machine that runs smoothly on stern discipline...
...Second Bid. In 1920 Russia made its second bid for control of the west during its war with Poland. Stalin was political commissar of the Red Army which invaded roughly the same area of Poland invaded 25 years later by Marshal Ivan Konev-just as this time a Provisional Government of Poland, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, followed hard on the heels of the Red Army. Like Bierut, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole. Like Bierut, he was in the Russian secret police (later he organized the Ogpu). Russia's second bid for western power failed when French General Maxime Weygand...