Word: alexei
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...twice that sum. It employs nearly 400,000 workers and embraces the choicest 30% of all German industry in the Soviet zone, including I.G. Farben. Russian reparation seizures and forced nationalization already took care of other large chunks. Economic pharaoh of this pyramid of 13 trusts was one Alexei Resnikov...
...favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described...
...years had made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's Soviet consul general, hulking Nicholas S. Ananiev, gave a reception for emigre clergymen, showed them pictures of the election in Moscow of Metropolitan Alexei as Patriarch of all Russia...
...Ruthenian persecution was important in itself, and also as an example of Stalin's use of the Orthodox Church to further Communism's Pan-Slavic program in southeastern Europe. But the Pope's encyclical highlighted an even more important global aspect of the Stalin-Alexei alliance, which had recently reached imperiously into the U.S. Last month the Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite...
...Alexei's other activities in behalf of Holy Communist Russia include close contacts through the Middle East. Last summer he made a state visit to his fellow Patriarchs of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch. Thus Stalin, who is already playing footie with the Muslems of the Middle East, has also got a means of influencing the Levantine Orthodox Christians...