Word: orakhelashvili
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mamil Dmitrievich Orakhelashvili, an Old Georgian Bolshevik and Stalin intimate, onetime Vice Commissar for Education...
...Significance-In effect Abel Yenu-kidze was the Louis McHenry Howe of the Kremlin under Stalin. That he and such another old friend as Orakhelashvili, as well as so great a Soviet statesman as Karakhan, should be liquidated left the world but two plausible hypotheses to choose from: either Stalin is madly destroying his best friends, or they, like Trotsky, have come to believe that Stalin has betrayed the Revolution. In any case something is very rotten in Russia...
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