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...gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
This picture of a class in the Suvorov Military Academy at Kalinin illustrates dominant features of Soviet education since Marshal Stalin abolished coeduca tion (TIME, Aug. 1 6). It is one of nine cadet schools named for the 18th century Russian Field Marshal Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov. Eligible for the school's seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history...
White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finm'sh Republic [i.e., the parts of Finland ceded to Russia...
These, and other battles fought along Russia's 1,500-mile front promised major victories, which may come during the Tripartite Conference. During the week Moscow announced: > The capture of Nevel, key stronghold on the important Kalinin front. > The entry into Gomel's suburbs, the capture of villages within 62 miles of the Latvian border, 22 miles of Vitebsk, 30 miles of Mogilev...