Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
...spark of revolt was left in Marshal Tito's nominal superior, young King Peter II. In Britain, the exiled monarch swallowed his brash objections of last January (TIME, Jan. 22), obediently picked three regents (two Titomen, one King's man) from a list of six sent him by the Marshal. With the royal capitulation in his hands, Tito swiftly merged his partisan National Committee of Liberation with the Royal Government of Premier Ivan Subasich to form the new (no longer royal) "Government of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia...
...revolt was said to have been organized by Anna Pauker, formerly a left-wing trade-union organizer in the U.S., where her husband, a Rumanian by birth but a Soviet citizen, worked in the personnel department of Amtorg (Russia's official trading corporation...
...Smoking Opponent. Certain to be President Vargas' chief opponent in the forthcoming elections was Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. Ascetic Bachelor Gomes, an oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks. As a survivor of the bloody, gallant, but unsuccessful 1922 revolt, he is a legendary figure in Brazil. He helped to put Vargas in power in the successful revolution of 1930. Later, Vargas appointed him commander of Brazil's Second Air Zone. Impeccably honest and inherently democratic, Air Chief Gomes later criticized the Vargas regime, was subsequently relieved of his field command, assigned to a Rio desk...
...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...