Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laid on the hospitality. In the streets the crowds had been generally curious to see Tito, and paid more attention to him than to Khrushchev at his side (after all, had not Tito, alone of all those present, successfully defied Stalin?). Tito, for his part, assured the crowds at Kiev: "We have abandoned all that was bad between us," and at the Black Sea resort of Sochi he cried: "I feel at home in the Soviet Union, because we are part of the same family, the family of Socialism." And in Moscow he said, "We never betrayed the cause...
...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...
...Kiev in 1939 a man in the uniform of a railroad official threw a bomb into the compartment of a train in which Khrushchev was sitting. Two passengers traveling with Khrushchev were killed. (The small slit scar under his nose is believed to be a memento of this incident...
...also in these big cities where it is easiest to buy consumer goods. Malia, for instance, lost his pair of nail clippers in Kiev, and there was not even a pair of scissors in the biggest department store in town. And in Leningrad, he bought the last pair of gloves in the biggest department store there. Both these items were available in abundance in Moscow. Similarly, it is only the five or six largest cities in Russia which have television...
Malia also made agreements with the university libraries of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Tashkent to exchange academic journals of colleges in both countries. The libraries of Central academies of science in Moscow and Leningrad are now ready to send catalogues of their entire output to this country. All these agreements went into effect on Jan. 1 of this year...