Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realism. Behind this hope loomed harsh realities. Foreign Commissar Molotov can be expected to shy away from pious phrases, present Russia's views and demands in hard, unequivocal words...
This group remained in the background while brilliant, flabby-fleshed Maxim Litvinoff had his internationalist innings in 1929-39. But when the Munich pact ended the Geneva daydreams, the nationalist band came to the fore. One of its members, Viacheslav Molotov, stepped into Litvinoff's place as Commissar of Foreign Affairs...
...Voice. These men proclaim no policy on their own. Their job is to advise Stalin, who makes the final decision. But these men are of the mold which produced Stalin himself, and their thought patterns are his. Once Stalin approves of a policy, it is announced in Foreign Commissar Molotov's dull, stammering monotone...
...welcomed Joachim von Ribbentrop to the Kremlin and launched out upon the Soviet Union's brief and fateful course of collaboration with Nazi Germany. Five weeks before Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Stalin took over the Premiership from Molotov, assigned him primarily to Foreign Affairs. In May 1942 Foreign Commissar Molotov climbed into a four-motored bomber, flew west to seek friends...
...Commissar. Molotov is married, has two teen-age daughters (one adopted). When he takes the girls picnicking, Ogpu guards form a discreet ring around them...