Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack administrator, he was Premier for eleven years until Stalin took the post over in 1941. The fact that Molotov's name followed just after Stalin on a recent official list of Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff (1943-45), signed the anniversary Order of the Day as Stalin's deputy. He left his planning job to acquire glory as the conqueror of Konigsberg in East Prussia and as commander in the brief war against Japan. Vasilevsky, now Deputy Commissar...
Among other possible heirs to all or part of Stalin's power: ¶ Marshal Georgi Zhukov, 52, Stalin's deputy in Berlin, is the most important of the "Counts of the Marches" who guard Russia's borders...
...Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov has long been Stalin's closest Army friend. Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, 48, secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee and organizer of Leningrad's defense, represents the U.S.S.R. in Helsinki...
...Lavrenti Beria, 46, chief of the secret police (N.K.V.D.), is a civilian. Stalin went out of his way to make Beria a Marshal of the Soviet Union last summer...
...Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's aging (78) President, left Helsinki for points west and south. Officially, he was traveling for his health (he is asthmatic). Unofficially, the veteran soldier and inveterate foe of Soviet Russia was said to be avoiding his country's "War Responsibles" trial...