Word: georgies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin announced that Hungarian Communist Bela Kun had been taken prisoner by counter-revolutionary Ukrainians. (Last previous report on Bela Kun was that he had been purged in Russia in 1939.) Another from Berlin: Reichstag Fire-famed Georgi Dimitroff would soon be named special Soviet emissary...
...National Conference of the Soviet Communist Party met last week for the first time in four years, and all was not brotherhood at the meeting. The delegates heard a bitter speech by a member of the Central Committee's Secretariat, Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov, admitting that Soviet industry had been slowed down by a top-heavy bureaucracy, buck-passing, lazy administration. Shops, depots, harbor and railroad works, he said, were suffering a "reign of dirt." Dirt, he said, is "the bulwark of capitalist traditions." It was interesting to note that Comrade Malenkov's sharpest criticisms were leveled at producers...
...military sphere, Russia also made a move which may or may not have been aimed for German consumption. General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, an expert with tanks and parachutes and one of three boosted to the rank of General of the Army after generals were reinstated last spring, was elevated to Chief of Staff of the Red Army. The interesting thing about this appointment was the fact that for nine months General Zhukov has been chief of the Kiev military district-next to the touchy Balkans. He recently stated that his men must be constantly ready, "so that no tricks...
...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...