Word: ryumin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security, and three of his aides. All were identified with the "Beria plot" and the equally mysterious and never explained "doctors' plot" against the army (Vasilevsky, Shtemenko, Konev). Even the now deposed Malenkov...
...Beria, not Malenkov, who announced that the accused doctors were innocent victims of false persecution. It was he who deposed and then arrested the former Deputy Minister of State Security -a man named Ryumin-as "a secret enemy of our state" who had attempted to kindle in the Soviet people "feelings of national hostility" (i.e., anti-Semitism). But the principal fall guy is Semyon D. Ignatiev, Stalin's last Minister of State Security, and a bureaucrat who was elevated shortly after Stalin's death to one of the five secretariat seats on the party's powerful Central...
Meanwhile, a small pyre must be built for those who had helped prepare the plot against the doctors. They, said Beria's communique, "have already been arrested and brought to criminal responsibility." Besides Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because...