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Word: zhuravlev (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...week the Commissar of Light Industry, Comrade Isidor E. Liubimov and his vice commissars. In the heavy industry sector, just two weeks after being appointed its Commissar, big-nosed Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was furiously turning the Soviet coal industry upside down last week. He fired both Ivan Fesenko and Zhuravlev, respectively the chief and assistant chief of the coal industry for "failing to clean up the last vestiges of sabotage by wreckers and thus, in effect, assisting the Trotskyist-Bukharinist wreckers in their contemptible work." According to Comrade Kaganovich, he will now reshuffle coal's whole personnel, consistently give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Accent on Youth | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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