Word: voroshilov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...
...grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and his Marshals and Generals of the Red Army cracked out speeches all over Russia in their hoarse, parade-ground voices, calling the election "our Mobilization!" and making vigorous efforts to get out the vote...
...three of Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other airmen were ushered into the Kremlin sanctum of Joseph Stalin, who was flanked by Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov, Premier Molotov and other Red bigwigs...
...Trotskyism" last week. Dispatches passed by the Moscow censor described Joseph Stalin's hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election under the new "Stalinist Constitution" (TIME, June...
...presently rumored in countries adjoining the Soviet Union last week that Dictator Stalin's hated onetime creature Yagoda had been arrested only upon demand of the Red Army in the person of its popular leader Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and Marshals Blucher, Yegorov, Tuckachevsky, and Budenny. Up to now the Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit...