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Germany and Italy, Madden's group announced its verdict: "This committee unanimously agrees . . . that the Soviet NKVD committed the massacre of Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. . . not later than the spring of 1940." Total number of Polish officers, intellectuals and clergymen believed to have been slaughtered by the Russians at Katyn and similar mass executions...
BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...