Word: dej
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among Communist officials. Cars came & went in a steady stream at the home of Rumanian Commissar Gheor-ghiu-Dej, and police guards were expanded at Red Ministers' homes. In some Rumanian villages, small-fry Communist's carried clubs or staves for protection, because they were not sure how people would react. Plain people around Prague were reported guardedly joyful. Red officials were so uncertain of their control that...
...called "the little Lenin," wears the title of Deputy Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could...
...Rumania as Foreign Minister and Politburocrat; more than any other Rumanian Red, was the link between Moscow and Bucharest. Began sliding last month (TIME, June 9) when accused of "crimes against the state." Confessed to deviation both right & left, and saw her power transferred to her rival, Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who, along with her, was Rumania's spokesman at the Comin-fornrs birth. Purged last week as Foreign Minister. Probable fate: public trial, imprisonment or death...
BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...
...used to be simply Gheorghe Gheorghiu until he spent so much time in Rumania's Dej prison in pre-Red days that he tacked Dej on to his name, a Balkan equivalent of calling oneself Alphonse Capone-Alcatraz or Lucky Luciano-Sing Sing...