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...because he is so much fun to watch, and so terribly good at knocking off German officers. The film purports to be based on a true story, and while the legend of the hero Vassily Zaitsev exists, he may have been an invention of Russian propaganda. Joseph Fiennes plays Danilov, an officer whose main responsibility is to write such propaganda to boost the morale of the troops and the Russian people. When these two young men meet each other it is friendship at first sight, and Danilov makes Vassily the center of a propaganda campaign based on the soldier...
...when Lowell House was being built, plans called for the tower to feature four clocks. But a faculty member, travelling in the Soviet Union, discovered a set of 400-year-old bells from St. Danilov's monastery that Stalin planned to melt for ammunition. The man wired Harvard to stop construction immediately, and arranged to have the bells shipped...
...Monday and Tuesday, Reagan took his human-rights campaign public. At the ancient Danilov Monastery, recently given back to the Russian Orthodox Church, he preached religious freedom: "We pray that the return of this monastery signals a willingness to return to believers the thousands of other houses of worship which are now closed, boarded up or used for secular purposes." At ; Spaso House, the American Ambassador's residence, the President was host to a meeting with 96 dissidents and refuseniks, including the Ziemans; some of them attended despite harassment and left fearing punishment. Said Reagan: "I wanted to convey . . . support...
Reagan: "The monks of Danilov, the dissidents and refuseniks . . . the students and young people have shown once again that spiritual values are cherished in this nation...
...answers, he'd heard the great chorus of bells ringing especially for him from the Danilov Monastery, a spiritual island in the embrace of Moscow. There he had summoned all his stagecraft to read lines from Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "The secret of the pacifying Russian countryside . . . is in the churches...