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...local Communist parties. Briefs are prepared for the Kremlin, where the facts are correlated with reports from other intelligence agencies, such as INO (Inostranny Otdel), the foreign espionage department of the NKVD, and Razvedupra, the reconnaissance division of the Red army. Thus fortified from Furkasovsky Alley, Messrs. Stalin, Molotov & Co. revise their foreign policies and issue new directives to Communist parties abroad...
...world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey! Thank Karl Marx, thank Lenin, thank Stalin, thank Vishinsky, thank Molotov, thank Gromyko, he was eliminated years ago forever...
...changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant staring morosely into the water. "You don't seem to have followed my directions," the policeman remarked. "Not yet," said the peasant; "I was just standing here thinking how big the Moskva has become...
...August 1945, the now-merged coalition government at Warsaw was summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
...ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very well we have established a military sea base...