Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invited to testify (through a translator) before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Michael Ivankov-Nikolov, 35, summed up his reaction to the Moscow propaganda statement: "From beginning to end this statement is a lie. There is not a drop of truth in it." Crewcut Viktor Tatarnikov, 20, was asked what he thought about staying on in the U.S. It put him, he replied, "in a very good and merry mood...
...Izvestia Viktor Poltoratsky revealed for the first time to most Russians that there are 58 million automobiles and trucks in the U.S. (only 3,000,000 short of the latest count), and that the Chevrolet plant in Los Angeles turns out a new car every 90 seconds. Wrote Poltoratsky: "It is possible to cross America from the Atlantic to the Pacific by automobile, and everywhere . . . the motorist finds all he needs-service stations, speedy mechanical assistance, and inexpensive and comfortable lodgings...
...none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security, and three of his aides. All were identified with the "Beria plot" and the equally mysterious and never explained "doctors' plot" against the army (Vasilevsky, Shtemenko, Konev). Even the now deposed Malenkov can be described as a former police official, for as clerk...
...direct participant in the criminal subversive group that carried out Beria's orders." Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia's World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited by Soviet law"; 3) "having forced arrested people to give false confessions, saying that they were guilty of severe crimes against...
...that subtler perfume called peaceful coexistence-the Soviet government last week reminded the world that murder is still very much a part of Kremlin politics. The government deliberately chose the anniversary of former Police Boss Lavrenty Beria's execution as "an imperialist agent" to announce the shooting of Viktor Abakumov and three other Beria associates...