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Among the refugees there is only hatred for the convinced Communist. Most refugees felt that the convinced Party man will have to be dealt with drastically in the event that the regime is overthrown. According to one man interviewed, "The MVD will be torn to pieces by the population, no Army could every protect them...
...embassy was a little more talkative: the ambassador was very ill and could not be disturbed. "He has suffered a heart attack, like any other man," explained an embassy spokesman. But the curious were not at all satisfied. Teheran newspapers put their untrammeled imaginations to bear, with varied results: MVD men had shot the ambassador when he tried to flee to the U.S. embassy; the ambassador had shot himself; the ambassador had tried to do himself in with a poisoned cup of tea. The embassy press attache issued a statement calling all the reports "tendentious, mendacious...
...attention back to civil affairs, but it never loosed its hold on the army. The system of commissars and political instructors, which extends down through the army command to company level, is Chekist, and popularly called so, though the official name has changed many times -OGPU, GPU, NKVD, MGB, MVD...
Last week in Moscow, Bulganin called a meeting of the top army Chekists and a sprinkling of those genuine fighting marshals who are regularly on call to give luster to Chekist authority. Purpose of the meeting: to pledge support of Premier Georgy Malenkov's arrest of Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Lavrenty Beria, himself an oldtime Chekist (TIME, July 20). The declaration was intended to 1) end speculation that the army may have acted independently of the government in the arrest of Beria, and 2) preserve the front of solidarity behind which the struggle for power is raging. It could...
...Ousted in Georgia: Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Vladimir Dekanazov, put in the job by Beria after Stalin's death, onetime Ambassador to Germany (1940-41). The purge in Beria's native Georgia was made by General Aleksei Antonov, a wartime army chief of staff...