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Historic Roles. In connection with Grechko's visit last week, Izvestia emphasized Russia's ancient historic role in the Mediterranean, tracing its beginnings to a navigation treaty signed by the Principality of Kiev in the 10th century. The Russian presence in the Mediterranean was forcefully reaffirmed in 1770 when Admiral Orlov defeated the Turkish fleet at Tchesme. Later the Russians made a series of amphibious landings on the Ionian islands and even captured Corfu in 1799. "No, we are not guests in this sea," crowed Izvestia. "Many glorious victories of our people are connected with it." (Izvestia conveniently...
...Kistiakowsky enlisted in the Czarist White Army. He served in Kiev, his home town, in addition to Odessa and in Crimea. Analyzing his teenage actions last week, he said, "Historically, it clearly was a mistake. It turned out that the White Army represented only a very special minority in Russia, such as the landed gentry." Kistiakowsky explained that "a great many young people like myself joined because they were influenced by the argument that the Bolshevik Party was selling Russia to the Germans." After two years in the White Army. Kistiakowsky said he "spent a year bumming in the Balkans...
...most prized finds were a group of ornately embroidered bishops' robes made of brocade, suede and velvet, bought from the Lavrosky Museum in Kiev, U.S.S.R. "I was ready to put scissors to the material immediately," Jenny Bell says, "when I was told they were consecrated. I called the Russian Orthodox Church to have them deconsecrated because I thought people might feel a little strange wearing them." To play it safe with both God and woman, she has agreed to hand over her favorite piece, an 18th century black brocade deacon's robe, to Manhattan's Ukrainian Institute...
...places have names: Belgorod, Kharkov, Kiev. Catastrophe follows catastrophe. But finally, like war itself, The Forgotten Soldier obliterates time and space into a pure throbbing pain whose only limit is death or madness...
...other reports about the disastrous effects of collectivization. But it was not until many years later that he realized the scale of the "starvation and repression which accompanied collectivization as it was carried out under Stalin." Long afterward, for example, he heard of a train that had pulled into Kiev filled with the bodies of Ukrainians who had starved to death. Some officials wanted to sound an alarm at the time, but none had the courage to confront Stalin. "We had already moved into the period when one man had the collective [leadership] under his thumb and everyone else trembled...