Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland's Veikko Hakulinen by 26 seconds in the 30-kilometer (about 18.6 miles) cross-country race. Asked which race he preferred, Kusin answered curtly: "The ones...
...became a cadet at Leningrad's military academy, where he lasted two years before being expelled for "antiStalinist" activ ities. Condemned, he spent the next seven years in Stalin's forced-labor camps. There he met the Russian girl whom he married...
Last month the commissars of Leningrad, Armenia and Tula disappeared. More recently the Minister of Agriculture, Ivan Benediktov, was publicly denounced. Last week's announcement named six ministers and MVD generals to stand trial with Beria on charges of "high treason." They were all of Cabinet rank...
Black Pobedas. Stevens traveled about Russia as much as Soviet restrictions would allow: from Leningrad on the Finnish Gulf to Tiflis in the Caucasus and Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
Over and over again Stevens had to warn Russians that friendship with an American would land them in trouble. On an excursion boat near Leningrad, he met a scholarly looking old man who turned out to be "a real friend, gentle and courtly, interesting and interested." As usual, Stevens had to break off the friendship to protect his Russian friend...