Word: gamarnik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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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