RUSSIA: Stalin's Secrets

Ten Russians who have rendered such supreme services to the Soviet Government as to win its highest decorations, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star, received their beribboned medals from the Soviet Central Executive Committee last week. What had these heroes done? Who were they? As to nine of the ten, Moscow correspondents could find out absolutely nothing, not even where they live or what may be their jobs. The only hero definitely spotted was Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky, and everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years...

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