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...orders. The system paid off: Chekist disregard for life accounted for some of the Red army's more daring and costly victories. With the war's end, many of the Red army's greatest marshals were not soldiers, but cops. Such a one is goateed Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, now Minister for Defense...
...public naming of names waited for a meeting of the Moscow district of the Communist Party last week. In the marble Hall of Columns in the House of Unions, once a nobleman's club, 2,000 party members heard Nikolai Mikhailov, Moscow district party leader, read out the communiques of the Plenum and the Presidium. One of Communism's great wolves had fallen, and the lesser wolves were tearing at his carcass. Reported Tass: "Speakers at the meeting spoke in wrathful indignation of the foul enemy of the party and the Soviet people-the international imperialist agent Beria...
...denied that he was an imperialist spy. In court he cracked: "If I had been a spy, dozens of countries could have closed down their intelligence services-there would have been no need for them to have maintained such a mass of spies." He was executed, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov, a madman who carried on the slaughter to the point where millions of Russians were dead or jailed. Yezhov, often styled "the beloved pupil of our leader and teacher Stalin," had his own group of pupils, among them a fat, pallid young man named Georgy Malenkov. After two years...
...flexible Reds like Yugoslavia's Tito or Italy's Togliatti, Ulbricht is a small and limited man. But by the beginning of World War II, years of internal fratricide, Russian purges and Nazi scythe-swinging had cleaned German Communism of its commanding figures, and left only what Nikolai Bukharin once called a band of "obedient dunces." To Moscow, Walter Ulbricht seemed the safest choice. He was ordered to Moscow for most of the war years to prepare for the day when the Red flag would be raised over Berlin...
...clock in the Kremlin Spassky tower chimed 10 as Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin, resplendent in gold-braided dress uniform, arrived in Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...