Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punishment of Nazis, Foreign Commissar Molotov's Declaration for War Crime Trials, Oct. 14, 1942 (urging the immediate trial of Rudolf Hess) : "The Soviet Government . . . expects that all interested States will mutually assist each other in searching for extradition, prosecution and stern punishment of the Hitlerites and their accomplices guilty of the organization, encouragement, or perpetration of crimes on occupied territory." A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet setting up a committee to list Axis crimes against Russia (Nov. 1942) specifically asks for trial of German Army commanders...
Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the Japanese in Mongolia, is First Vice Commissar for Defense and second only to Commissar Joseph Stalin in U.S.S.R. military councils...
Last August Stalin designated Zhukov First Vice Commissar for Defense, but left him in command of the central front. For reasons known only at the Kremlin, he also left him with his title of Army General, one degree below Marshals Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko, Voroshilov, et al. Marshal Shaposhnikov lately has been ill, and in the months when Stalin was planning his winter offensives he turned more & more to his Liubimets...
Mortality from brain wounds in the last war was 35% in Russia; now it is about 5%. According to Deputy Health Commissar S. Milovidov, deaths from stomach wounds have dropped 33%, from head, jaw and thorax wounds 50%, from spinal column injuries...
...United Nations Court of Justice to try all criminals-of-war-after the war. Molotov's answer (addressed, not to Britain and the U.S., but to the nine little Governments in Exile): Why not set up the court at once? To his Molotov cocktail the Foreign Commissar added a Stalin stinger: And why not begin by trying, and hanging, Nazi Arch-Criminal Rudolf Hess...