Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow last week 68-year-old Joseph Stalin, his eyes filled with tears, buried one man who might have been his successor. Politburo Member and Cominform Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov died of arteriosclerosis in his 53rd year...
Burly, sulky Nikolai Alexeevich Voznesensky is a Politburo bigwig and the Soviet Union's chief planner. Fifteen months ago, in a book called War Economy of the U.S.S.R. in the Period of the War of Liberation, he laid down the Soviet Union's postwar industrial program. Then he explained why the program...
...grown to 8,000. Now he has 25,000. The hard core and leadership are Communist. But the KKE (pronounced coo-coo-ay) seldom admits that it controls the guerrillas, and refers to them as a "democratic force fighting against monarcho-fascists." Last year one member of the Greek Politburo earned a sharp rebuke from his comrades by boasting that "KKE has birds which sing in the mountains...
...meeting called by the Central Committee, Shostakovich and Khachaturian (among others) had dutifully flayed themselves. But Izvestia hadn't found the act convincing. They admitted their mistakes, said Izvestia, but "their halfway, insufficiently self-critical statements naturally did not satisfy." There was nothing halfway in what the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov told them...
...appears that Mr. Cobb would defend the hecklers on still another ground, for he states that "the total disregard for the movements of the Politburo ... by most of the speakers showed all too clearly where their true sentiments lie." Besides being logically ridiculous, the statement's implications are patently false. At least six of the nine speakers are well known to be unqualifiedly opposed to Communism; four of them prefaced their speeches with declarations in support of the Marshall Plan; three of these represented groups which in effect bar Communists from membership. In the light of these facts, the reference...