Word: fedorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some others: Alexander Barmine (former Soviet chargé d'affaires in Athens, now a U.S. citizen); Victor Kravchenko (former member of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...
They had set out under the auspices of the Chinese, but were quickly taken in hand by the Russians. One group was confined for 54 hours in Mukden and 53 hours in Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars...
...captured by the Allies was Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, 64, who piled up a great heap of German dead in his vain effort to take Moscow, and was known as Der Sterber ("The Dier"), because of his constant prating about the glory of death on the battlefield. On a roadside north of Hamburg last week British troops found Bock's body riddled by bullets, apparently from an Allied strafing plane...
George S. Patton's Third Army rolled along the Danube through Austria toward a junction with Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. Together they would cut Czechoslovakia from Austria, tear the entire side out of the mountain fortress the Germans hoped to hold. The British crossed the Elbe near Hamburg in the north for a drive toward Lübeck. The U.S. Ninth and the U.S. First, southwest of Berlin, broke out for more linkups with Russian troops...