Word: shcherbakov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Colonel General Alexander Sergeivich Shcherbakov, 44, massive (300 Ibs.) Communist man-of-all-political-work and longtime friend of Stalin, who was simultaneously head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain...
...official Party organ. Stalin, as General Secretary of the Party, is always interested in the tone which Pravda sets for the rest of the Soviet press. Too busy now to give it close personal attention, he is represented in its management by 43-year-old Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo...