Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Struggle Against Cowards." The greatest piece of news the Germans had all week was issued by Comrade Stalin. He announced that he himself would take over from Marshal Semion Timoshenko the post of Commissar for Defense - i.e., Commander in Chief. The office of political commissar in the Army was reinstated...
...founded, there were not enough politically reliable officers to go around; Tsarist officers had to be kept in service. To guard against counter-revolutionary movements within the Army, they were rigidly supervised by political officers. Every military order issued by an officer had to be counter-signed by his commissar before it could be carried out. In practice this came to mean constant civilian interference, and endless argument instead of action in crisis...
Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
This week Missionary Sir Stafford saw his mission accomplished. In Moscow, after two audiences with Joseph Stalin, he sat down with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, drafted and signed a 117-word compact between Britain and Russia...
...another diplomat in waiting, a Russian, the Pact was equally good news. He was onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, once No. 1 sales man of Russia's United Front. For a decade he held forth at Geneva, talking for collective security and against Fascism, was waved to the sidelines in 1939 when Russia changed her tactics, began her appeasement play for time...