Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tukhachevsky's armies during the Civil War, rose to be chief of staff of the Red army, a candidate member of the Central Committee and, after Tukhachevsky's arrest, vice commissar of defense. One of Stalin's drinking companions, he too disappeared without trace...
Huge, rugged Marshal Yan Gamarnik, political commissar of the Red army and a full member of the Central Committee, aid not wait to be arrested, but committed suicide...
Joseph Unschlicht, one of the top military Chekists in the civil war, later chief of the Red air force, had opposed Stalin's violent farm collectivization policy. He disappeared. And there were others: Andrei Bubnov, onetime education commissar (TIME. April 2); Sergei Kamenev, chief of chemical defense; Moisei Rukhimovich, commissar of defense industry; and M. S. Kedrov, chief of the defense section of the State Planning Commission. The point about all these liquidated Old Bolsheviks was that they were all connected with Russian defense. Said Voprosi Istorii drily: "There were many other comrades who did much to strengthen...
...outside Hungary concede that Sandor & Co., given a little help from some less talented trackmen, will not disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...
Nobody recognized the aging white-haired man who walked about Moscow, staring with rheumy eyes at the broad streets and tall buildings. He was Andrei Bubnov, one of the five top Bolsheviks to direct the October 1917 Revolution. As Lenin's Commissar of Education he had set out to create Homo sovieticus, the new Soviet man. But somewhere along the line, vodka-swilling Andrei Bubnov had tangled with a new type of Soviet man called Joseph Stalin, and in 1937 he disappeared. Unlike tens of thousands of other old Bolsheviks, Bubnov had survived 19 years of Soviet prison camps...