Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities of a brand-new nation of 45,000,000 inhabitants springing out of eastern Europe, and printed a map of future "Great Ukraine." Most of the new State would be carved out of the Soviet Union, where 30,000,000 Ukrainians live under the rule of Dictator Joseph Stalin, but a sizable chunk would also come out of Poland (3,200,000 Ukrainians) and a generous slice out of Rumania (800,000 Ukrainians...
...granary of Russia, the Ukraine has long attracted Adolf Hitler as the best potential bread-supplier to the Nazi Fatherland. The Ukrainian masses have also long rebelled against "foreign" rule. They do not like Dictator Stalin, King Carol II of Rumania or their Polish masters. Because they were under German domination for only the eight closing months of the World War, Nazis hope that they prefer German tutelage as the least of evils...
...Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on the largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov...
...other hand, if Boss Stalin has at last concluded that Nikolai Yezhov's drastic thinning of the top-rank Soviet administrators, generals and diplomats was itself a peculiarly subtle kind of sabotage. then Comrade Yezhov's removal last week was the beginning of his end. Every previous Commissar of Internal Affairs has eventually fallen victim to his successor...
...Georgian peasant like Stalin, Beria in 1917, when still a student joined the Georgian Communist Party, then presided over by Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...