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Word: moisei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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Joseph Unschlicht, one of the top military Chekists in the civil war, later chief of the Red air force, had opposed Stalin's violent farm collectivization policy. He disappeared. And there were others: Andrei Bubnov, onetime education commissar (TIME. April 2); Sergei Kamenev, chief of chemical defense; Moisei Rukhimovich, commissar of defense industry; and M. S. Kedrov, chief of the defense section of the State Planning Commission. The point about all these liquidated Old Bolsheviks was that they were all connected with Russian defense. Said Voprosi Istorii drily: "There were many other comrades who did much to strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Dead Men Tell a Tale | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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