Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molotov. At 11:55 a.m.the orators were done, and the world was noting the order in which they spoke-Malenkov, Beria, Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind the big metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
...Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin's backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter of apology for his "sharp and public criticism of Academician Lysenko." Three weeks later, Zhdanov Sr. died, presumably of a heart attack. In January the Kremlin shocked the world by asserting that Zhdanov had been murdered by a group of Soviet doctors, most of them Jews...
...world and to the Russian people, the Kremlin presented a picture of strength, sureness and unity. How real that unity is, and how long it can last, is another question...
...partly withered and sometimes in chilly weather he wore a glove on his left hand. Two toes of his left foot were grown together. He was stocky, but walked with the muffled ease of a polar bear erect, and, without being athletic, looked supple and active. At a Kremlin party in 1946, drinking Brüderschaft with Tito, he shouted: "There's still strength in me," and slipping his hands under bulky Tito's armpits, lifted him off the floor three times to the beat of a Russian folk melody on the phonograph...
That winter Stalin created a new army by drafting every able-bodied man & woman in Russia. From the Kremlin, which he never left, he directed the fighting. "No matter how they cry and complain," he told Chief of Staff Vassilevsky, when hard-pressed generals were calling for help at Stalingrad, "don't promise them any reserves. Don't give them a single battalion from the Moscow front." On a Kremlin visit shortly before the war's end, Tito heard Stalin call up Marshal Malinovsky whose army had been halted. "You're asleep there, asleep!" Stalin shouted...