Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel on the trip through the fortified zone...
Bolshevik officials were not amused by his exuberance during his student days at the University of Leningrad. In 1921, when he was 15, they gave him two months of solitary confinement for leading demonstrations against the arrest of university professors. Despite such delays (he was jailed for a few days each year, "usually around Easter time," as a reminder), he graduated as a "Learned Economist" in 1925; soon after he got permission to leave the country, to recuperate from an operation on his jaw. He never returned...
Across the world, Communism waged germ warfare against the mind of man. In Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, in almost every city, town, village and collective farm in the U.S.S.R., workers and farmers were pulled from their jobs for mass inoculations of the fiction that the U.S. is deluging the Korean and Chinese Communists with bacteriological weapons. Peking newspapers printed photographic "proof" of weird insects and rotting food. So did London's Daily Worker. The editors of the New York Daily Worker joined in the cry against their own countrymen. In Italy, in France, in Belgium, Holland and West Germany...
Almost 200 years later, in 1938, the Leningrad State Library acquired the MS of a full report written by an eyewitness. This week, in a good translation by M. A. Michael, The American Expedition, by Sven Waxell, one of Bering's chief lieutenants, was published...
...spoke at a discussion of "Life Under the Soviets," sponsored by the Russian Immigrant Society. The discussion was moderated by Michael M. Karpovich, professor of History. The other, main speaker was Vladimir Petrov, who related his observations on Russia. He was a student in Leningrad in 1935 when he was arrested and sentenced to six years imprisonment for being an "enemy of the people." He is now teaching Russian at Yale...