In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

In July 1942, Hitler praised the efficiency of the Soviet military industry and Stalin:

* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union.

In 1942, the team of scientists Leonid Shvarts, Moisei Komissarchik and engineer Yakov Shor received the Stalin prize for the development of the BM-8-48.

In 1942, during the Great Patriotic War ( 1941 – 45 ), Joseph Stalin reintroduced the policy via penal battalions.

He joined the French Communist Party in 1942, which led to his break from the Surrealists, and he later eulogised Joseph Stalin in his political writings.

Flerov is known for writing to Stalin in April 1942 and pointing out the conspicuous silence in scientific journals within the field of nuclear fission in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.

USSR tested its own Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 in 1942, but the project was scrapped by Joseph Stalin in 1945.

However Time magazine points out those such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, and Joseph Stalin in 1939 and again in 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 have also been granted the title.

In April 1942, Georgii Flerov, who would later became a key figure in the nuclear program, directed a secret letter to Joseph Stalin pointing out that nothing was being published in the physics journals by Americans, British, or even Germans, on nuclear fission since the year of its discovery in 1939, and that indeed many of the most prominent physicists in Allied countries seemed not to be publishing at all.

Stalin removed Timoshenko from front-line command, giving him roles as overall commander of the Stalingrad ( June 1942 ), then North-Western ( October 1942 ), Leningrad ( June 1943 ), Caucasus ( June 1944 ) and Baltic ( August 1944 ) fronts.

As a 29-year-old in 1942, Mikhalkov's work drew the attention of the Soviet Union's leader Joseph Stalin, who commissioned him to write lyrics for a new national anthem.

He was awarded three Stalin Prizes ( 1941, 1942, 1950 ) and numerous other awards.

His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944.

Order No. 227 of July 28, 1942 was issued by Joseph Stalin acting as People's Commissar of Defence.

Soviet rule was harsh: about 50, 000 people were executed and killed in 1921 – 1924, more than 150, 000 were purged under Stalin and his secret police chief, the Georgian Lavrenty Beria in 1935 – 1938, 1942 and 1945 – 1951.

He received the Stalin Prize ( 1942 ), the Lenin Prize ( 1960 ) ( posthumously ), and the Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1955 ).

Vasily Degtyaryov was awarded the USSR's State Stalin Prize in 1941, 1942, 1944, and 1949 ( posthumously ).

Lavrenty Beria ’ s report to Stalin of March 1942 included the MAUD report and other British documents.

* Stalin Prize ( 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948 )

He also impersonated Joseph Stalin and other world leaders for the March of Time radio series, starred as The Cisco Kid on radio from 1942 – 1945 and sleuth Philo Vance in a syndicated series from 1948 – 1950, and served as narrator for the radio adventures of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

* Stalin Prize ( 1942 )

Stalin did not expect Hitler to invade the Soviet Union until 1942 at the earliest.

* 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.

In 1942 the British established an Advanced Flying Boat base at the East Point Plantation, staffed and equipped from the 205 and 240 Squadrons, then stationed on Ceylon.

Ecuador continues to contest the boundary with Peru, which was established by the Rio Protocol of 1942 and ceded to Peru a large portion of territory east of the Andes.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

The logistical details were established in the Wannsee Conference ( January 1942 ) and were executed by the administrator Adolf Eichmann.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

In 1942, a pioneering VHF frequency-modulated radio-link was established between Creg-na-Baa and the UK to provide an alternative to the sub-sea cable.

* 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.

In 1942, Maroger became a Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and established a school of painting.

General Zhang Fakui ( Chang Fa-kuei ), who based himself in Guangxi, established the Viet Nam Cach Menh Dong Minh Hoi meaning " Viet Nam Revolutionary League " in 1942, which was assisted by the VNQDD to serve the KMT's aims.

An Act of Congress ( Public Law 671 — 77th Congress, Chapter 508, 2d Session ) on July 20, 1942, established the Legion of Merit and provided that the medal " shall have suitable appurtenances and devices and not more than four degrees, and which the President, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may award to

Executive Order 9260, dated October 29, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the rules for the Legion of Merit and required the President's approval for the award.

* 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

The Office of Strategic Services was established by a Presidential military order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942, to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.

Category: Government agencies established in 1942

In 1942, an official SS Volunteer Committee was established in Finland to take care of the battalion's somewhat strained relations with its German superiors.

* 1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.

Fort Ebey, named for the Colonel, was established in 1942 on the west side of the central part of the island, just northwest of Coupeville.

As a result, the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida.

The meetings, which became known as the Controversial discussions, were established on a more regular basis from 1942 by which time Jones had removed himself from direct participation owing to ill health and the difficulties of war-time travel from his home in Elsted, West Sussex.

In 1942, William Lewis Moody, Jr., along with his wife Libbie Shearn Rice Moody, established the Moody Foundation, with the purpose of " benefiting present and future generations of Texans.

The Manhattan Engineer District ( MED ) was formally established by the Chief of Engineers, Major General Eugene Reybold on 16 August 1942.

Due to the large number of refugees in Ganzhou as a result from the ongoing war, thousands of orphans lived on the street ; in June 1942, Chiang Ching-kuo formally established the Chinese Children's Village ( 中華兒童新村 ) in the outskirts of Ganzhou, with facilities such as a nursery, kindergarten, primary school, hospital and gymnasium.

In 1942, following the escape of the leaders of the LSSP from a British prison, a unified Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma ( BLPI ) was established in India, bringing together the many Trotskyist groups in the subcontinent.