Word: koba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deny It." In describing the purges, Novelist Soloviev throws in some sensational details which he does not manage to authenticate as history, but which have at least fictional verisimilitude. Stalin's bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look...
...Koba was Stalin's pseudonym as a revolutionist in his younger days...