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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...
...most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway was progressing nicely; a Party conference was in session. He read off figures concerning the housing campaign and the latest total of ore production. And then, without any change of tone: 'Gamarnik, ex-member of the Central Committee of the Party, fearing that his anti-Soviet machinations would be unmasked, has committed suicide. Weather report: the Central Observatory forecasts for tomorrow. . . .' " Barmine "walked out into the cool night...
...variation on this disinfecting theme last week was the suicide of mat-bearded Jan Gamarnik, Vice-Commissar for Defense. His death came month after the demotion of Defense Vice-Commissar Mikhail Nikolaivich Tukhachevsky (TIME, May 31). Gamarnik, 43, had been a member of the Communist Party since 1916. After the civil war he became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected...
...Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world revolution all by himself. Had "Klim" been in the Kremlin, observers thought, Order No. 173 would have been circulated privately to Red Army commanders, not blatantly released to the Moscow Press...
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