Word: politbureau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheered by the Congress, too, was the shooting of 117 Russians to avenge the murder of Joseph Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). To replace Friend Kirov in the Politbureau of the Party ("Soviet Big Ten"), Dictator Stalin put forward his hard-boiled nephew. Comrade Anastasy Mikoyan. In 1919 British troops occupying the city of Baku, Russia's oil metropolis, seized 26 self-styled "Bolshevik Commissars," shot all except smart Stalin's smart nephew who managed to escape. Last week the Soviet Congress acclaimed him as definitely a new Big Shot...
...Germans were shot during Adolf Hitler's "blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express...
...efficient are Soviet police that for a White Russian to get at Joseph Stalin or one of the nine other members of the all-powerful Politbureau (Steering Committee) of the Communist Party has been virtually impossible. Competent observers have believed for years that nothing but an inside job could finish one of the Big Ten. Last week in the very Cradle of the Revolution, in Leningrad's Smolny Institute, came the momentous shot...
Soviet celebrations now feature super-life-size poster pictures of Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...
Until Russia's potent "Klim" arrived in Turkey last week no member of the Politbureau or Steering Committee of Moscow's ruling Communist Party had ever ventured outside the Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried...