Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commissar Antonovich quickly became a nuisance to his new masters. For speaking his mind, and especially for criticizing Russian officers and Russian blunders in Spain, he was expelled from the military academy. He asked for permission to leave the country. Instead, he was ordered to a pick & shovel job on the Moscow subway...
...Death came to this Old Bolshevik long since ousted from his post of Soviet Foreign Commissar...
...Commissar Ladislav Kopriva, the man behind many Czech purges, likes to philosophize. Last November, after jailing Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky for "antistate activities," Kopriva said: "Our Czechoslovak traitors . .. can be compared with Russia's Trotsky ... Our conspiracies are not extraordinary, but only further evidence that our country is subject to the same laws of socialistic development as the Soviet Union...
Last week the laws of socialistic development caught up with Commissar Kopriva himself. Prague radio announced that he had been "relieved at his own request" of his duties as Minister of National Security. It was the same hollow phrase used by Kopriva to cover up what his bullyboys had done to thousands of Czech "deviationists," including former Communist Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis, who has been in jail-also presumably at his own request-since January...
...cold-eyed Georgy Malenkov had grown strong enough to electrify a party conference with rousing attacks on Communist bureaucrats, "windbags" and "ignoramuses." Soon after, several commissars were demoted and Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, was booted out of her job as Commissar of the Fish Industry. Malenkov was honored with a junior membership in the Politburo, later became boss of the party apparatus...