Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns and other modern weapons, they were organized into combat teams and an army group: some were assigned to a fleet of 31 armed ships, others to flight training in Yak-17s Behind the "Vopos" rose the secret police, some 30,000 organized in NKVD style by a veteran (60) Red of the Spanish civil war and Moscow fraternity named Wilhelm Zaisser...
Gone was the old Vishinsky, the scolding, venomous NKVD prosecutor with his accusations of forgery, cannibalism and "blood-spattered dollars." In the General Assembly last week, the new Vishinsky cooed that there had been a "misunderstanding." "Life goes forward," he said. "Situations and relationships [change] in accordance with events ... It has been said that the Soviet representatives keep talking about their peace-loving nature . . . but 'what about deeds?' Well, have there not been a few deeds, at least during the last month? . . . Where are yours?" Let us, proposed Vishinsky, "dig the tunnel of friendship from both sides...
Always Tell the NKVD. For some of its course, When the Gods Are Silent follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From...
Back in Moscow, Mark Surov is assigned a minor Kremlin post. His heart has turned away from the inhuman regime, but what to do next he does not know. The great purges are beginning; fear floods the city. When Mark invites friends to a party, he must inform the NKVD so that it can send an extra guest...
...which have at least fictional verisimilitude. Stalin's bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...