Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Pearl Harbor, it warned Moscow that Japan was planning to attack the U.S. and Great Britain in the Pacific. "The real cause for the Communization of China," said Willoughby, "is the long-range subversive operation, over the last two decades, conducted by professional Communists under orders of the Kremlin-controlled Third Comintern...
Over drinks in his Kremlin apartment one night in 1942, Joseph Stalin told Winston Churchill about the forced collectivization of the Russian peasants in the early '30's, in which some 5,000,000 died of starvation. "It was fearful ... It was absolutely necessary for Russia . . . We took the greatest trouble to explain it to the peasants. It was no use. After you have said all you can to a peasant, he says he must go home and consult his wife and his herder. After he has talked it over with them, he always answers that he does...
...Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...
...strange, sealed-off world that young Stalin saw within the Kremlin's cold walls. As his father ruthlessly hacked his way upwards, Vasily found himself more & more isolated from other children. His companions were the stern-faced NKVD sentries lining the Kremlin corridors ; his teachers, special party instructors...
...Dzhigit." The night of Nov. 9, 1932 is memorable in Vasily's life. At a Kremlin party commemorating the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution, Nadezhda Allilueva argued with her husband about a political amnesty he was postponing, and in anger threw an inkstand at him. Early next morning, the Kremlin doctor was called to Stalin's apartment. Nadezhda lay dead on the floor. Stalin stood by, white and drawn, a pistol nearby on the desk. Nadezhda had committed suicide, he said, undoubtedly over a law exam she was studying...