Word: georgies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor guesser, and lined up with Germany in two world wars, it has become more of a Russian springboard than a crossroads. Last week Great Britain tacitly acknowledged Bulgaria's new alignment: London recognized (although Washington did not) the Communist-dominated government of oldtime Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov...
...huge, floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...
...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...