Word: kozlov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid little heed to the congress. The Soviet Government and satellites (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) thought it so important that representatives from abroad included (among others): Alexander Korneichuk,** Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine; General Vassily Kozlov, World War II guerrilla hero; Lieut. General Alexander Gundorov, head of the All-Slav Congress in Moscow; General Karol Swierczewski, Poland's Vice Minister of National Defense; Tzola Dragoïtcheva, Secretary of Bulgaria's Fatherland Front and No. 1 hatchet woman of Bulgarian Communism. The Yugoslav delegates, who attempted to attend the congress as private citizens, were barred...
...High point of the congress: when U.S. Negro singer (and leftist) Paul Robeson finished singing Song of the Fatherland, Soviet General Kozlov was so moved that he rushed to the rostrum and planted a kiss on Robeson's cheek...