Word: kudriavtsev
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...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Dmitri Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...
...rode a little distance to some cabbage patches. The big, leafy cabbages were covered with a sooty, grey dust and next to them were high mounds of grey brown stuff. "This," said Kudriavtsev, "is fertilizer. A layer of human bones, a layer of human ashes, a layer of manure. This is German food production. Kill people; fertilize cabbages...
...dream of power come true. On the platform sat the government's top labor leaders and Faure Chaumon, the ambassador designate who will soon go to Moscow and pick up diplomatic relations with Russia. As the convention gathered, the first Soviet Ambassador to Cuba since 1952, Sergei Kudriavtsev, once expelled by Canada as a spy, flew into Havana and got a big welcome...
...full measure of Russia's ambitions for Cuba was made plain last week in its choice of an ambassador for Havana, Sergei Kudriavtsev. The name should be familiar. Kudriavtsev was, in the findings of a Canadian royal commission, the real head of the Canadian spy ring exposed by the defecting Russian cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko in 1945. The Russians then brazenly assigned him to the U.N. as adviser to the Soviet delegation in 1947, but the appointment stirred such bad publicity that he was recalled inside four months. Russia's man in Havana is obviously expected to head...
...ignored Elena, drove the prisoners to exhaustion, and tolerated the brutality of his lonely and guilty guards. Sherrez' was horribly beaten for protesting the kicking of a woman prisoner; other prisoners were hammered to death with crowbars. In a grotesque ceremony the prisoners formally tried Kudriavtsev and all the guards as murderers and "condemned" them to death. Next morning the prisoners were machine-gunned by a guard...