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...after the victory of the proletariat and the overthrow of the reactionary leadership in Czechoslovakia, Stalin was vacationing in the Crimea. Klement Gottwald, the Czechoslovak President, and his wife came for a visit. Stalin phoned and asked if I could come to the Crimea as soon as possible. "Gottwald is here and says he can't get along without you. He absolutely demands that you come." This was Stalin's idea of humor...
Despite the concession to Yeltsin's demand for faster change, the committee is packed with Gorbachev supporters. Alongside Boris Fyodorov, 32, Yeltsin's finance minister, sit several of the President's closest advisers. Before Sept. 1, when Gorbachev returns from his summer vacation in the Crimea, the committee is to work out a plan for drafting a law to establish a market ecomomy...
Today Russians occupy the grain-growing Volga, Ukrainians the Crimea's sunny coast, and Georgians the stone houses built long ago by Turks. These relative newcomers are loath to make way for returning natives, especially in these tough times. Says Igor Krupnik, a researcher at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnography: "The Crimeans can't let the Tatars come back and have houses when there is a waiting list years long...
...Nixon who called Truman's Secretary of State the dean of the "cowardly college of Communist containment." Two decades later, the New Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went to see Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea in 1974, he refused to visit Yalta nearby, lest anyone accuse him of another giveaway. It was all for naught: the traveling White House press gleefully filed stories with the dread dateline...
When they met in the Soviet Crimea in February 1945 to plan the end of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin also set the stage for the long-running drama that may dominate next month's meeting off Malta. In effect, if not by intent, Roosevelt and Churchill sanctioned Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe. Now, 44 years later, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev must grapple with the disintegration of that Soviet supremacy...