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Death Revealed. Alexander V. Gorbatov, 81, the Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...
...that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room sat some 30 experts and advisers. Major question on the agenda: Berlin's food supply...
Relations between Russia's Colonel General Alexander V. Gorbatov and U.S. Major General Floyd L. Parks are, in General Parks's words, "more than cordial-we've become real friends." Gorbatov was inclined to be a little stiff at first. Parks, a Southerner, soon charmed him. Gorbatov took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine...
...Dahlem villa Colonel Frank L. Howley, military governor of Berlin's U.S. zone, threw a party for 100 Allied officers. The Russians, unaccustomed to cocktail protocol, drank on & on, stayed on & on-but no dinner was served. Tactful U.S. interpreters finally hinted that the party was over. General Gorbatov politely shook hands with all his fellow-guests, then led away the puzzled Russians...
Cordiality & Cocktails. Next day the Kommandantur held its first meeting, at Red Army headquarters. Russia's Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov presided. Other representatives: for the U.S., Major General Floyd L. Parks; for Britain, Major General Lewis O. Lyne; for France, Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne. Said the BBC: "Cordiality prevailed...
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