Word: moldavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach the Elbe, where his 58th Guards Division linked up with the U.S. 69th Division. Here Konev met General Bradley, presented him with a Cossack charger (the name Konev is derived from kon, a stallion...
More significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
...Tass news agency announced the execution of A. I. Osmanov and I. K. Sarantsev, said to have received "special training from U.S. intelligence officers in topography, the use of weapons and parachuting." Osmanov and Sarantsev, said Tass, had been flown from Greece in a U.S. plane and dropped in Moldavia last August, for the "organization of acts of diversion, terror and espionage," after which they were to have crossed the Soviet Armenian border and reported to U.S. intelligence officers at Kars, Turkey...