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...Blitzkriegmeister who for a time was one of Hitler's favorite field commanders; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The stony-faced strategist engineered the fall of Greece and Yugoslavia, earning the title "Balkan Conqueror." Though Hitler personally selected him in 1942 to take command of German forces in the Caucasus, List concluded that the Russian campaign was futile and was sacked. Given a life sentence as a war criminal, he was released after only four years in prison...
...Britain's foremost students of Russian affairs here describes the deportation from their homelands in the Caucasus of the entire populations of eight small nations. The Soviet pretext during World War II was that all those people were traitorous. By Conquest's calculation, about 1.6 million were uprooted and sent to the East. Of these, he estimates, 600,000 died as a result of the move...
Outside the official economy is a second, or countereconomy, which functions informally and in the best capitalist tradition. Collective farmers from Georgia and the Caucasus jet to Moscow with loads of fresh vegetables grown in their private plots and unload them for two to three times the price of wilted produce in the official market. Western-made clothing and shoes are available in government-sanctioned "commission" shops. There is also a black market in Western clothing, supplying trendy and kinky threads to modish Russians. Cost of a pair of white jeans: $30. Some items come right off the backs...
...some areas, Soviet leaders have frankly admitted their inability to keep pace with needs and have asked for outside help. Nearly four years ago, they enlisted Italy's Fiat to build a vast, $800 million automobile plant at Togliatti in the Caucasus. Production, delayed by material shortages, is scheduled to begin in July, but Moscow hopes eventually to get 660,000 cars a year from the plant. Last week Henry Ford II announced that the Soviet Union had invited Ford Motor Co. to participate in the construction of a mammoth truck-building plant at Naberezhnye Chelny, east of Kazan...
...Defregger was the fondness he bore for his former military connections. He celebrated Mass for the annual reunions of his old army outfit, the 114th Jäger (Sharpshooter) division, and regaled them with rousing, nostalgic sermons. "What the dust of the Russian steppes, the fields of the Caucasus, what the bursting of the grenades have wrought," he once told them proudly, "will withstand the pragmatic materialism of our time." Last week, though, Defregger was rudely reminded of quite a different aspect of his military career. The German newsweekly Der Spiegel broke the story that shortly before his consecration...