Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet city of Kiev, the group stood at Babi Yar, where during two years of Nazi occupation some 80,000 Jews were killed and thrown into a mass grave. Here a stark sculpture of monumental figures rises from a knoll. But the only evidence that Jews died here were the Hebrew words from Job, "Earth do not cover my blood," on the memorial wreath presented by the commission. Oddly, it was two non-Jews who did most to recollect the past. In his great poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeni Yevtushenko reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today...
...intensity and a cast of thousands. A total of 99 construction projects, either new buildings or major re-buildings, have been undertaken in connection with the games. Of these, 76 are in Moscow, where the competition is centered. The rest are spread among the four other Olympic cities-Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk and Tallinn...
...myths, and ruled by a government that seems to deny the very idea of a sex life, most Soviet citizens, says Stern, lead lives of "sexual misery." For more than 30 years this Soviet Kinsey was a practicing endocrinologist at a clinic in Vinnitsa, near the Ukrainian city of Kiev, where his patients called upon him for advice on sexual problems...
DIED. Anatoli Kuznetsov, 49, Russian author of Babi Yar, a documentary novel about the Nazi slaughter of Jews and others outside Kiev, who fled to Britain in 1969; of a heart attack; in London. Once an obedient party member who even informed on fellow writers for the KGB, he bitterly denounced his homeland as a "fascist state" after his defection...
Vins received a degree in electrical engineering from the Kiev Polytechnical Institute in 1952 and was ordained a minister in 1962. Struggle, and even martyrdom, in the service of religious conviction runs in his family. His father Pyotr was a U.S.-trained preacher who went back to the Soviet Union in 1922 as a missionary. He was arrested three times for his religious activities and died in 1943 somewhere in Stalin's vast Gulag system. Georgi pursued a career in industrial research in Kiev until he dedicated himself full time to religious work...