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Recalled to Moscow in 1949, Khrushchev warned his bosses that "Ukrainian enemies of Communism have entered the service of Anglo-American imperialists." It was his way of saying that trouble was brewing in the land...
...Purger. The measure of Khrushchev's failure came in World War II when millions of Ukrainians went over to the Germans without a fight. Stupidly rejecting this free offering, the Nazis launched a mass slaughter which so aroused the survivors as to provide the Red army with a vast guerrilla underground that slashed at the Wehrmacht's rear. Khrushchev, a lieutenant general, commanded a Ukrainian guerrilla army, and won a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Political commissar for all Russian armies on the southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans...
Director Avrutin's Stakhanovite methods produced more than 22,000 paintings this year, "but the quality, because of desperate hurry, is below any criticism." Concluded Soviet Culture sadly: "It is time for the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic to take this factory under closer control...
Conquered People. "It would be sheer folly to place at their disposal a health service such as we know it in Germany; and so-no inoculations and other preventive measures for the natives! . . . The local population must be given no facilities for higher education . . . Notices in the Ukrainian language 'Beware of the Trains' are superfluous; what on earth does it matter if one or two more locals get run over by the trains...
...first hint was a press announcement that Gregory Ivanovich Petrovsky was to get a special award. Ukrainians recognized the name of an almost forgotten Ukrainian Bolshevik who disappeared in the 1938 purge after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying...