Word: ivans
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Chain of Command. In another pertinent step, the Supreme Soviet last week ratified the appointment of Central Committee Personnel Chief Aleksander Nikolaevich Shelepin, 40, as the Soviet Union's top cop, succeeding the bloodstained General Ivan Serov (TIME, Dec. 22). A youthful political commissar in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war, Shelepin rose through the Young Communist organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation...
Shiny Attraction. Part of the reason for Adenauer's stand was his conviction (based on "intelligence sources") that Khrushchev is currently engaged in some kind of power struggle in Moscow, as evidenced by the dismissal of the hated police boss Ivan Serov (see below), and that an uncompromising Western stand on Berlin would strengthen the hand of Nikita's critics within the Politburo. The Kremlin has indeed been sounding an uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week...
...terse little paragraph on the back page of Pravda disclosed last week that "Army General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov has been released from his duties as chairman of the State Security Committee in connection with his transfer to other duties." The announcement, which was not even repeated on the Soviet radio, was as brusque as it was brief. Just as in the case of the disgraced war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, it failed to say what the general's new duties would be-and Zhukov has yet to turn up in another post...
...sandy-haired little man snapping his fingers to summon a Soviet ambassador during B. and K.'s visit to India (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955). When he appeared in Britain in 1956 to prepare security measures there for the touring pair, the British press denounced him so vehemently as "Ivan the Terrible" and "Butcher Serov" that he was left behind on the actual tour...
...Becoming the first Russian writer to win it since 1933, when Ivan Bunin received the award in self-exile in France...