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...Gang. On the official Politburo list (more important than gorodki scores) Zhdanov now stands fourth-after Stalin, Molotov and the hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick...
...elections was being violated. Sample: when the opposition parties were finally permitted to hold a rally in a Sofia square, an inexplicable power failure (the Government controls all utilities) had left the square in darkness, the loudspeakers hushed. Meanwhile, at another rally of the free electorate (complete with loudspeakers) Georgi Dimitroff, onetime chief of the Comintern and head of Bulgaria's Communists, warned anyone considering voting against the Government party: "It is worth remembering the fate of Draja Mihailovich in Yugoslavia...
...Inspecting all Soviet Army forces in the Balkans (according to "official Balkan circles"): Marshal Georgi Konstantino-vich Zhukov, former Russian commander in Germany, hitherto rumored in disgrace as governor of Russia's Southern Ukrainian military region. The Ukrainian military district, the report claims, embraces all the Balkans (including the Dardanelles...
...ballroom of dingy Manhattan Center, they cheered their heroes (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Claude Pepper) and hissed their villains (President Truman, James F. Byrnes, "U.S. imperialism"). Later, in Madison Square Garden, they gave a standing ovation to personal messages 'from Generalissimo Stalin, Marshal Tito, and Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff. They roared approval of Russia, UNRRA aid, Yugoslav claims to Trieste...
...Georgi Dimitroff, Communist Party boss, was taking no chances. The Peace Treaty would limit the Bulgarian Army; the remnant must be men the Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...