Word: pieck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union's chief architect and the man most likely to dominate its central committee was shrewd, grey Communist Wilhelm Pieck, onetime Reichstag Deputy, more recently a founder and charter member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee. The four parties included the three authorized last month by the Russians
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...
...Committee No. 1 (and undoubtedly the more important for Russian purposes) was the National Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
...anything was agreed at Yalta about disbanding the National Committee of Free Germany, nothing was published about it. Yet it was this group in the Free Germany Committee that was the key to Russia's future intentions in Germany. It was Wilhelm Pieck, not Bismarck's great-grandson, or Field Marshal von Paulus, who might realize in reverse the Iron Chancellor's dream of a strong Russian-German alliance. Until Russia disavowed Pieck and his committee, it could be assumed that the Kremlin had a plan for them...
...barely 26 years since Lenin faced the knotty question : would it be necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...