Word: dimitrov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hall of the Supreme Soviet (parliament) at Stalin's right hand. He was next-and last-seen on May Day, when the Soviet mighty assembled atop Lenin's tomb. Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov. But he was there only in the printed list; his cannonball head was nowhere visible in the official photos...
Last week, Sofia announced that precisely the same method would be applied to the body of the late Georgi Dimitrov-the first Communist hero since Lenin to receive the signal honor of this treatment...
Even before the special embalmers got started, Dimitrov looked impressive in death (see cut). Less attention, however, was focused on the dead man than on the living who surrounded him. Describing a Moscow ceremony, before Dimitrov's body was sent to Sofia last week, Pravda wrote: ". . . 23 hours 20 minutes: J. V. Stalin enters the hall. With him, placing themselves in a guard of honor, are Comrades G. M. Malenkov, L. P. Beria, K. E. Voroshilov, L. M. Kaganovich, A. I. Mikoyan, N. M. Shvernik, N. A. Bulganin...
...year-old boss of the Communist Party organization was on his way up. Some watchers from afar were also disturbed by the fact that Molotov was missing from the scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because his name appeared prominently on proclamations mourning Dimitrov. Thus Molotov remained first choice, with Malenkov a strong second, for the job of Stalin's successor, if & when Stalin, like Lenin and Dimitrov before him, becomes a semi-permanent thing...
Died. Georgi Dimitrov, 67, Premier of Bulgaria and Moscow's No. 1 satellite henchman; of diabetic complications; in a sanitarium near Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL...