Word: leningrad
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...Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
...humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve years, went a respected leader of Leningrad Jewry, Gedalia Pechersky, 60, along with five other prominent Leningrad and Moscow Jews...
Documentary Evidence. Gouré also spotted what he thinks are signs of retractable, blastproof doors to station entrances of the 43-mile-long Moscow subway, whose circular, concrete tunnels could house one million people-20% of the city's population. (Leningrad has about eight miles of subway, and the first stage of the Kiev subway has six miles of track.) But mostly, Gouré's evidence for a thoroughly planned Russian civil defense effort is the torrent of pamphlets, charts and decrees issued to the public through DOSAAF (All-Union Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army...
...Choir at Leningrad...
...record, which was cut by Professional Sound, Inc., under the 'Poon's Vanitas label, will be titled "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium...