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...noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary MVD gorilla...
...NKVD had become such a huge, unwieldy organization that Stalin split it into two parts: the MGB (Security, under Abakumov) and the MVD (Slave Labor, under Kruglov). Having swelled the ranks of slave labor by several millions, Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made Kruglov's deputy, got a third Order of Lenin for whipping his slaves into completing the Volga-Don canal. But after Stalin's death, his membership in MVD and not in MGB probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces...
...Labor's tousleheaded Herbert Vere Evatt, was sadly ruffled by the Petrov spy case. Because two former Evatt associates were named by Petrov as his collaborators in espionage (but later cleared) Evatt, with birdlike innocence, had written to Molotov, asking for confirmation of his own contention that the MVD documents produced by Petrov were forged (TIME, Oct. 31). Molotov obligingly answered yes, and Evatt set out to use Molotov as a character witness. This reassured no one. Then Evatt turned his ire on critical anti-Communists in his own party, and forced the ouster of Catholic Action groups. They...
...MVD English Lesson
...most important discovery Berman made in the U.S.S.R. also concerns the MVD. He learned unexpectedly that the Special Board of the MVD was abolished two years ago, but that the law accomplishing this has never been published. Berman, in an address before the Institute of Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said he had been surprised to hear that the Special Board, which he frankly termed "the chief legal instrument of terror in the Soviet Union," had been abolished, and that this fact had been kept secret. It appears, however, that the Russians still do not want this information...