Word: grinko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russians who wanted facts turned from this fighting budget speech to a meaty report Commissar Zverev made in the official publication Bolshevik. In this, Commissar Zverev blames on his purged predecessor, Grigory Grinko, four major shortcomings in Soviet finance: 1) persistently low purchasing power of the ruble; 2) long arrears in salaries which the State owes to personnel of the Motor & Tractor Stations (some have been unpaid for as much as two years); 3) closing by the State of a total of 26,000 Soviet savings banks and institutions; 4) chaotic conditions in the Soviet tax system...
...Rykov, Bukharin, former Chief of Ogpu Yagoda, Finance Commissar Grinko, former President of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Khodzhaev, former All-Union Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts, former All-Union Agriculture Commissar Chernov, former All-Union Timber Chief Ivanov, former All-Union Cooperative Stores Chief Zelensky, former All-Union First Assistant Foreign Commissar Krestinsky, former Kremlin Hospital Chief Dr. Levin, Endocrinologist Dr. Kazakov, the late Maxim Gorki's secretary Kruchkov, and the lesser Communists Ikramov, Sharangovich, Zubarev, Bulanov and Maximov-Dikovsky...
...Secret Political Police. They announced they were putting on trial this week 21 Communists, most of whom have held official positions close to Joseph Stalin, big shots of Stalin's own party and inner clique. In equivalent U. S. terms. Defendant Rykov would be Jack Garner; Defendant Grinko-Secretary Morgenthau; Defendant Yagoda-Attorney General Cummings; Defendant Chernov- Secretary Wallace; Defendant Khodjaiev -Governor Lehman; Defendant Rakovsky-Ambassador Bullitt; Defendant Bukharin-Hugh Johnson; Defendant Levin -Dr. Alexis Carrel. "Terrific!" was Walter Duranty's adjective after studying the official charges against the 21. Correspondent Joseph Barnes remarked that "some...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...