Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian-born citizen of the U.S., answered with a story that epitomized the whole point of the festival. Nabokov wanted to present part of Dimitri Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Minsk, the story of a murderous hussy of Czarist days who winds up in Siberia. But the Kremlin had banned Lady Macbeth in 1937, and for that reason Nabokov ran into trouble with his project. Even though the opera was performed at the Metropolitan in 1935, there was no score available in the U.S. Nabokov cabled Artur Rodzinski, who had conducted the performances at the Met. Rodzinski replied...
...This nation is still in deadly peril. We have an Army confronting the enemy in the field. We have troops and bases at vital points overseas . . . Until the Kremlin shows by deeds that it is willing to abandon its aggressive designs, we must prepare to prevent disaster. This may be an election year, but the Kremlin won't take a vacation simply because of the political situation. If we weaken, if we fall back, the Kremlin will see a chance to move in. There's only one real language they understand...
...design, such policy, formulated with reckless indifference to the preservation of constitutional liberty and our free enterprise economy, coupled with the rapid centralization of power in the hands of a few, is leading us toward a Communist state with as dreadful certainty as though the leaders of the Kremlin themselves were charting the course...
Gist of the cannonade, in the words of Averell Harriman: "Any decision to cut [mutual security] is a decision to reduce the strength which is being built in the free world for our common defense against the threat of the Kremlin. A substantial cut would gravely impair our security...
...Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met fleetingly in the Kremlin last week to Sign Here at the bottom of the 1952 budget. For the first year since the war, Stalin was not present, but the other eleven Politburocrats dressed up the occasion by sitting up front, enduring dutifully one of the lesser hardships of dictatorship : boring, predictable speeches...