Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland. His mother, a Lutheran, was a Volga German; his father Ilya, of Russian-Mongolian ancestry, was a teacher who rose to the post of director of elementary schools for his province and received a minor patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood. They swam in the Volga, hunted mushrooms in the birch woods, went ice skating and sleighing...
Unknown even to Vladimir, Alexander joined a revolutionary movement called the People's Will, and at 20 was hanged for taking part in a plot that failed to assassinate the Czar. Young Vladimir vowed: "I'll make them pay for this! I swear I will!" Payment was to be long deferred...
...They got together a large crowd of soldiers, sailors and workers, whose fluttering red banners were lit up by searchlights. To full-throated cheers Lenin delivered a speech at the station, another in the street outside, a third from the balcony of Ksheshinskaya Palace, former home of the Czar's mistress and now Bolshevik headquarters...
Books for Yakuts. In the days of the Czar, Russian Jews were periodically subject to brutal, bloody pogroms, but they could often escape suffering by fleeing Russia. The Soviet government forbids emigration and plans its persecutions in more subtle ways. Theoretically, Russian Judaism is permitted to preserve its own culture. But all 17 Yiddish theaters in Russia have been closed down, and only six books in Yiddish have been published since 1959-compared with 144 in one year alone for the 236,000 members of the obscure Yakut nation of Siberia...
...President, his "poverty czar" [March 20] and their henchmen are preparing to take another giant step in the plan to make the American citizen subservient to a regime. The "war on poverty" is obviously a vote-influencing scheme, another duplication of effort, another billion dollars for scattershot, another bureau to enlarge the federal payroll, another gimmick by a glib and slick-tongued politician. The chief cause of poverty is inflation, and after nearly three decades of "spending to create prosperity," inflationary policies are still predominant...