Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, that Baltic power, was ready to flex her muscles. On National Navy Day there were demonstrations, maneuvers, parades on all Russia's seas. People's Commissar for Navy Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov declared that 168 new Russian "warships"-many of which may be mosquito torpedo boats, which the Russians love-would be launched this year; and newspapers boasted that soon the Red Navy would be second to none other...
Litvinoff Era. Having embarked upon the collective security method of pursuing her objective of peace, Russia gave it all she had. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff became one of the most active, consistent delegates to the League, repeatedly astounded his colleagues with the proposal that everybody disarm. But almost from the moment that she entered the League, Russia saw the principle of collective security sold out time after time...
Starting out with a meeting conducted by Commissar Leader of the Advance Front, Wings For America wanders into a radio studio where Lorna, thinly disguised as Miss X, is about to tell all about her investigations of the Commissar's Desperate Desmonds. Right off the bat a smoke bomb goes off in the studio, creates such an uproar that one of the Commissar's boys is able to make off with the Chicago Police Department plans for combating sabotage of American Defense preparations hitherto in the keeping of Lieut. Mulaney...
...make matters worse, the Commissar manages to sneak in on Lorna's wave length and clutter up the air with Advance Front propaganda. Betimes Lorna squeezes in a few words, but presently one of the Commissar's agents, who has been lurking in the studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released...
...Maxim Litvinoff replaced by Viacheslav Molotov as Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs...