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...U.S.S.R. took full advantage of the peoples in its southern states whose cousins live across the border in Iran. Azerbaijan's knife-wearing Kurds and ebullient Armenians spill over into adjoining countries (see map). Its 700,000 Kurds have kin in Turkey and British-controlled Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would...
...year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces and pigs." The estate has 66 cows, 8,000 chickens and ducks, 135 pigs, and room for 20 com posers. In the main building the composers eat, sleep, loaf and criticize each other's music. Nearby are five...
...head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
...General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky. The Third drove in from the east on a 25-mile front along the Kaunas-Insterburg Railroad. Then the Second White Russian Army group under Colonel General Georgi F. Zakharov struck from the Narew River in the south and the First Baltic Army group of Armenian General Ivan K. Bagramian pushed in from the north near Tilsit. In 1914 the Russians had thrown 25 divisions into East Prussia. Now the Red Army strength, by the best guesses, was estimated at more than double that number...
Plunge to the Sea. Earlier in the week, bald and black-mustached General Ivan Bagramian-the onetime Armenian herdsman and train mechanic who first reached the Gulf of Riga last summer-reached the sea again, this time 15 miles north of Memel. The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes. At night people on Gotland Island, which lies in the Baltic west of Latvia, saw flashes from big naval guns...