Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill day in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith decided he wanted to go fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD guards, who shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years...
...faded Berlin apartment, Hildebrandt last week explained his purpose: "The Russians will see an F and know that people still have courage to speak up for human decency. German Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than simply to cower and grovel...
After twelve years of Hitler's Gestapo and four years of Stalin's MVD, the long-suffering people of Germany's Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being "enemies of democracy." He refused. He was told that if he remained intransigent, he would...