Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Litvinoff was the Foreign Commissar who fell from power when Stalin, changing policy, was preparing to sign the German-Russian Pact. (He was the spokesman for cooperation with the democracies who came back when Stalin needed democratic cooperation; the logical choice for Ambassador to Washington.) Ambassador Litvinoff's first appearance in Washington should have been the first great move toward reconciling a suspicious Russia with a suspicious...
...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked...
...Germans produced for the foreign press Georg, only son of Foreign Commissar Molotov, as proof that Foreign Commissar Molotov was lying. Georg, the spokesman pointed out, was not starved; he had two hands, two eyes and a sound stomach; he possessed honor intact and was not naked...
...only trouble with this answer, said the Russians (aside from the obvious fallacy of arguing from the particular to the general), was one small error in fact. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov...
...Sergius of the Orthodox Church and his clergy may well rejoice if President Roosevelt can procure more religious freedom in Russia. The number of churches in Russia has declined nearly 90% since the Revolution. In 1917 the country had 70,000, plus several thousand synagogues. In 1933, when Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff went to Washington to arrange for U.S. recognition of Russia, he said there were 40,000. Last August, Russia announced that it had 8,338 churches, mosques and synagogues for its 192,695,710 people...