Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist armies, who had once studied at Moscow's Eastern Toilers' Institute. At Moscow's Yaroslav station, the two Chinese visitors got one of the most distinguished receptions ever rendered to any foreign heads of state. The Moscow garrison sent a picked column of troops. Three Politburo bigwigs were present-Deputy Premiers Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Georgy M. Malenkov, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin-along with Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky and his deputy Andrei A. Gromyko...
...revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...
...ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
...Soviet Russia a one-man show? Says Smith: "[Stalin is not] an absolute dictator on the one hand or a prisoner of the Politburo on the other; his position, I would say, is more that of chairman of the board with the decisive vote. There doubtless are divisions on policy and cliques within the Politburo, but none of them are anti-Stalinist...
Malenkov recalled that World War I had brought the Bolshevik revolution, World War II the Soviet sweep-up of Central Europe and China. After such massive gains did the Politburo fear another war? "A third world war . . ." said Malenkov, "will be the grave . . . for the whole of world capitalism...