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Stalin--tyrant and village primitive--yammered all through the double feature, talking down the stars onscreen. At about 2 a.m. he would propose, as if spontaneously, "Let's go and get something to eat." No one said no. Everyone would ride 10 miles to Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo and begin another of the booze-fogged, terror-soaked marathon predawn dinners that the Minister of Cultural Terror, Yury Zhdanov, had convinced Stalin were the equivalent of the symposia of the ancient Greeks. "These vomit-flecked routs," the British biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore observes in Stalin: The Court...
When Khrushchev was at last deposed in 1964, in part because his shoe-banging performance at the U.N. had embarrassed the Soviet Union, he profited from his own reforms. Instead of shooting him, the party heavies sent him off to a retirement dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye, where he tended his garden like Don Corleone...
...came back home at about 3:30 a.m. My wife Raisa met me at the door. Too worked up to go to bed, I suggested that we take a stroll. Those paths near our dacha in Zhukovka, they witnessed so much. "We've never talked about this," I said. "But I must tell you now: I might become one of the candidates. You know, I've tried to quit politics thrice. But it has become the cause of my life. If they do nominate me, I can't shirk it. The people have been watching for too long, watching their...
...Venturing beyond the capital city to the coast is made easy by an extensive, Soviet-era rail line.It is even possible to stay at a private Russian dacha equipped with a banya, or sauna, for a detoxifying swelter?vodka in hand, of course...
...million tourists a year," he said. "Now we are delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both the élite and the masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti Beria had dachas here, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. Cows now graze around Stalin's dacha, while Beria's is occupied by a senior U.N. official trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the dispute with Georgia. The luxuriant richness of nature here - trees and plants forever threatening to displace human habitation - is obviously what...