Word: zakharovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Voznesensky's job as chief planner went his assistant, Maxim Zakharovich Saburov, who had been hauled up from obscurity two years ago, appointed a Deputy Prime Minister. At the same time Ivan T. Golyakov was relieved of his duties as President of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R...
...Western powers were pressing hard for a fair vote by holding up credits to Poland (the British withheld $12 million; the U.S. withheld $40 million, granted $50 million after Poland lifted censorship on U.S. correspondents last week). But Russia was pressing harder. Said the Soviet Ambassador to Poland, Victor Zakharovich Lebedev, recently: "My friends, if you want gold, you shall have gold. If you want wheat, you shall have wheat...
...Russians went to bat again the morning after-this time for Indonesia. The Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
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