Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portrait of the Soviet Union. Sweat, garlic and tobacco are the "characteristic smell of Moscow." Shoppers use no checks or credit cards; only the privileged in this "classless society" use scrip to buy luxury groceries at bargain prices. Three bathers in Armenia show off portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin tattooed on their chests...
Teng was forced to resign his party posts, and for nearly seven years he was in effect a nonperson. Some Sinologists believe that Teng spent his years of obscurity reading the works of Mao, Marx and Lenin and visiting communes and factories "in order to gain empathy for workers and peasants." He was, however, spared hard physical labor out of consideration for his age. In April 1973, he suddenly reappeared at a banquet in Peking and was led to his seat by Mao's niece Wang Hai-jung, now a Vice Foreign Minister. By the following January, Teng had been...
...raid leader was indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate...
Ditch your Lenin, ditch you Che-- Give us pheasant, peasant and pate...
...evening that is a dance of delight, and thanks to Director Peter Wood an astute lesson in the choreography of thought, there is only one segment that falters with a portentous sobriety. At the beginning of Act II, Lenin's long monologue with its didactic fervor disrupts the tone of what has preceded it and makes it a bit difficult to get back into the partygoing mood of the rest of the play...