Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Joseph Wirth, 76, Chancellor of two German governments (1921 and 1922), signer of the German-Russian friendship pact at Rapallo in 1922, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize for 1955; of a heart ailment; in Freiburg, Germany...
...star document of the new series, Marshal Stalin brutally served notice upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, five days before F.D.R.'s death, that cooperation was a myth, that all the Western concessions had been for naught. "Matters on the Polish question have really reached a dead end," wrote Stalin. "Where are the reasons for it? The reasons for it are that the ambassadors of the U.S. and England in Moscow . . . have departed from the principles of the Crimea conference...
...Soviet in Moscow at which Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rejected the spirit of peaceful compromise so widely advertised at Geneva last July. Khrushchev's attack on the U.S. and President Eisenhower was stronger than anything heard in the U.S.S.R. since the days of Dictator Stalin. Both Bulganin's and Khrushchev's speeches had warlike overtones, Bulganin speaking of the recent development of "intercontinental" rockets and Khru shchev virtually threatening the West with the new Soviet H-bomb...
...Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily (who disappeared in 1953), trailed Zhukov to Odessa after his demotion...
...NKVD had become such a huge, unwieldy organization that Stalin split it into two parts: the MGB (Security, under Abakumov) and the MVD (Slave Labor, under Kruglov). Having swelled the ranks of slave labor by several millions, Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made Kruglov's deputy, got a third Order of Lenin for whipping his slaves into completing the Volga-Don canal. But after Stalin's death, his membership in MVD and not in MGB probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces...