Word: kalyagin
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish most: peace...
...Shakespeare, the parallels with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and the impending struggle to succeed him are obvious. Says one Moscow viewer: "Not everything today is the way Lenin is saying it should be." Indeed, during a recent performance there was a brief tremor of applause in the balcony when Kalyagin suggested that the post of general secretary should be subject to greater party control...
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