K KACHIN RANGERS Kachin tribesmen working as scouts and auxiliaries for the Western Allies in Burma KAITEN See torpedoes KALININ, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH (1875–1946) Soviet statesman Nominal head of state, 1922–1946 A long-time member of the Politburo, Kalinin survived the great purges and terror under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, mainly through sheer toadyism He slavishly supported Stalin at every presented opportunity, and on occasion invented some of his own Emulating the behavior of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Kalinin also failed to object when his wife was arrested and sent to the GULAG in 1938 KALKIN GOL, BATTLE OF (1939) what Japanese refer to as Nomonhan The preferred Russian terminology for KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST (1903–1946) Schutzstaffel (SS) leader and secret policeman; head of the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and Reichssicherheithauptampt (RSHA), 1942–1945 An Austrian by birth, Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party and SS in 1932 He was involved in the attempted Nazi Putsch in Austria in 1934 that led to the murder of Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss Following the 1938 Anschluss, he headed the SS inside the former Austrian territories He succeeded to the post of chief murderer for the Nazi state upon the assassination of Reinhard