Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentence was written by a Russian whom the British like and can understand, Maxim Litvinoff. As Foreign Commissar before the war, he was a protagonist of collective security-simultaneous moves to keep the peace. Now, as unofficial liaison man, he pleaded for simultaneous moves...
Best guess as to the identity of Der Snag was that he was a onetime Viennese journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...
...reconstruct the Battle of Smolensk shot by shot. But it is already possible to reconstruct its general outlines. For the Russian plan of defense was based on a single document-a field manual designated as PU-36, which was drawn up in 1936 by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, then Vice Commissar of Defense. It was his last great service to the Red Army. He was executed in the purge a year later...
Test of Strategy. Since July 16 Russia claimed to have beaten off 42 attacks on Smolensk, which Napoleon grabbed from strategic retreaters in one day. This Russian decision to stand and counterattack, however it turns out, will undoubtedly be credited to Stalin. But his chief military adviser is Vice Commissar of Defense, Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (Joseph Stalin himself is now self-appointed Commissar...
...Blitzkrieg is a washout." So boasted Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon A. Lozovsky, Russia's rambunctious spokesman...