Word: dacha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became clear that it was a long-considered and well-planned move. Svetlana was not getting along with the leaders of the Kremlin, who have taken a special interest in her since her father's death. They provided her with a flat in Moscow, a car and a dacha in the country. Then a year ago, Svetlana married her third husband, Indian Communist Brajesh Singh, whom she had met in Moscow. For unknown reasons, the Kremlin opposed the marriage but reluctantly allowed it to take place. After that, the Soviet government took away many of Svetlana's special...
...David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from New York, nor would the U.S. wish to hear instant Communist propaganda broadcasts on Channel...
...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...
...dacha outside Moscow, Nikita could take some comfort in the fact that he was not yet being subjected to the treatment given to that other fallen leader-Josef Stalin. In the current Novy Mir, wartime Soviet Ambassador to London Ivan Maisky cuttingly elaborates on the tale that Stalin locked himself in his Kremlin study the day the Nazis invaded Russia and didn't bother to come out until four days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with...
Colonnades and a Greek pediment make the front of the rambling country house look like a set from Gone With the Wind. And the old massa who lives there fits the movie title too: Nikita Khrushchev, still hale at 70 but "retired" to his rent-free government dacha outside Moscow on a pension of $330 a month. After weeks of conscientious sleuthing, U.P.I.'s Henry Shapiro reported other details. Wife Nina gets another $132, and a five-man staff and limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses...