Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon there was learned speculation that...
Russia was in the grip of Asian flu last week. Word filtered through the Soviet censorship that the widespread epidemic has hit the great cities of western Russia as well as towns in Siberia and the Caucasus. Leningrad was reported to have closed all schools for the first ten grades. In Moscow 500 doctors plus extra nurses and medical students were assigned to hospital duty. Vaccine, though claimed to be effective, was admittedly scarce; medical workers had top priority; next, those in transportation and communications...
...years Western ears have been alert to whispers that there is in Moscow and Leningrad a cultural underground where a few painters are furtively turning out forbidden abstractions and showing them clandestinely among themselves. Last week the first examples of this art, ten paintings by a necessarily anonymous Russian artist, were put on exhibition in Paris' Right Bank Galerie Daniel Cordier...
...last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. Traveling in Russia at the time of the festival, Cordier was approached by a French-speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that he had seen any Western examples at close hand...
Frye, an associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, traveled last summer to Moscow and Leningrad. He said that he had found it somewhat difficult to get around, not because the Soviet regime had tightened regulations for foreign travel, but due to an improved bureaucracy and increased red tape...