Word: sergeevich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heads to Fall? "It has been established that all these doctor-assassins, these fiends in human shape . . . were hired for eign intelligence agents," said the communiqué. The plotters deliberately cut short the life of Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, the Kremlin's astute politi cal organizer of the Red army in World War II and one of the youngest (43) members of the Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances...
Sifting the Ashes. When Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov died in 1945, officially of a "heart attack," he held at least seven important posts, and had presumably a great future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...