Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden had no doubt that the bombers were Red Army planes, although in Stockholm the Government was ready to believe that the Russians had simply made a mistake. In Moscow Swedish Minister Vilhelm Assarsson hurried to protest to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, fully expecting to get an apology similar to that offered when the Russians early this year mistakenly bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks. Instead, the People's Commissar flatly denied that Red aviators were responsible...
...this view, at least so far as supplies went. In England, erstwhile War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet. White Russians in the U. S. talked excitedly about a counter-revolutionary regime, to be set up in northern Russia if the Allies strike there...
...probably the only man in Russia who has never kowtowed to Boss Stalin. He survived all the purges because of 1) his popularity with the people, and 2) his value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies on frontal assault. Military experts predicted last month, when he was first reported...
...Hungarians, who are thinking about a new military alliance with Italy, got the wind up. After all, Hungary now has a common frontier with Soviet Russia and Italy is far away. In Moscow, according to the official Soviet news agency Tass, Hungarian Minister Dr. Joseph Kristoffy called on Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin and formally denied "tendentious rumors" that the recent Italian-Hungarian talks in Venice were "directed against the Soviet Union." Since these "rumors" had originated in Hungarian official circles in Buda pest, the incident showed that Hungary too was frightened by the crisis...
Novelist Maxim Gorky was a good friend of Stalin, but perhaps his dearest friends were Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigori Konstantinovich Ordjonkidze and Soviet Executive, Committee Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light...