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Word: kremlins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters Demand Russians Return Ibis | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

Over the last three weeks have come the first substantial signs that this plan is working. It is possible to attribute the recent Communist concessions in Korea and relaxations elsewhere to the death of Stalin and the inferred "power struggle" in the Kremlin. But these are as much coincidences as causes. A month ago, some experts on Russia were saying such a struggle would surely start a war. From here, the new moves seem less a result of Stalin's death and more the result of Russia's realization that the West has been able to stymie her in cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perils of Peace | 4/21/1953 | See Source »

Most of all, a period of cold peace-what Stalin called "an ebb in the revolutionary tide"-would give the new men in the Kremlin time to settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

From Britain, Mr. Smith flew on to Washington, where he boarded for three nights at the White House as "Mr. Brown." Six months later, at a Kremlin conference, Stalin told a visitor that the Foreign Minister of Russia had been gallivanting in Chicago, "where the other gangsters live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that such a purge might involve himself sooner or later- made common cause with Beria. ¶ That something historic happened in the Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice: "The Office of the Commandant of the Kremlin regrets to announce the premature death February 15th of Major General Piotr Yevdokimovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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