Word: leningrader
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...General Thomas D. (Tommy) White, 51, was picked to succeed General Twining as vice chief of staff. He is a linguist (five languages), an amateur ichthyologist, a notably competent officer and a good airman, but his most enduring fame stems from a bad landing which he made on a Leningrad airstrip in 1934. As U.S. air attache in Russia, West Pointer White flew Ambassador Bill Bullitt from Mos cow to Leningrad in a two-place Douglas O-38F, found he had no power as he came in to land. The plane hit the runway, nosed over, and skidded grandly...
Lenin had his Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
...Skriabins sent their son to the Czarist high school in Kazan. Eventually he made his way to the Polytechnic Institute in far-off St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). Molotov studied Marx, and in a dark, musty cellar pledged his life and liberty to the Bolshevik party. He was 16 and "sentimental"- a "slight, fragile youth," as one of the comrades described him, "with wild hair and a small, pale face lighted with brilliant, myopic eyes burning under a bulging brow...
...residue of restlessness among the Bolsheviks came to a head with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party boss, and one of Stalin's stooges in the Politburo. Stalin went to the scene and took charge. He ordered 117 suspects to be shot without trial; thousands of Leningrad Party members were sent to Siberia. It was the beginning of a huge purge. From 1935 through 1938 successive trials were held of all prominent Bolsheviks who were not Stalin's sycophants, with Andrei Vishinsky prosecuting. They appeared a craven...
...Soviet Pact with Hitler in 1939, and it survived even that cynical deal. The great Stalin myth did not prevent the German army from sweeping through western Russia less than two years later. In the space of four months it had reached the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad: a feat made possible, in part, by the defection of hundreds of Stalin-hating Russian generals and the surrender of 4,000,000 peasant soldiers. But other millions of Russian soldiers held out, and so did Stalin's luck: General Winter stepped in, as he had 130 years before, when Napoleon...