Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the chairs will be the same, but the occupants will all be new. In Stalin's place will sit Commissar Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's Premier, but not undisputed boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
...territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close in the wake of Zhukov's victories. His assignment : to liquidate all anti-Soviet elements...
...dinners Vishinsky ordered Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories. The Zampolit organization had grown to huge proportions and was again the terror of the Red army. Into East Germany came Commissar Serov, to superintend the liquidation of dissidents, the dismantling of factories and museums, the kidnaping of scientists and the setting-up of spy schools. Politically, the Red army was back where it started...
...take a rest. Whatever the truth of these rumors, the fact was that Zhukov had grown too big for Stalin's comfort, i.e., too big to be quietly liquidated, and had been sent to the Odessa military district, where he was living quietly-under the watchful eye of Commissar Serov...
...came the war in Korea. Like magic, Zhukov turned up beside Molotov at a gathering in Warsaw, and again on the 1952 Moscow party Congress. But his real return to favor dates from Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, and the arrest four months later of arch-Commissar Beria. The same plenary meeting of the Central Committee which denounced Beria elevated Zhukov to full membership on the Central Committee of the Communist Party...