Word: leningrader
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Andrei Zhdanov, burly and bullnecked, presided over Leningrad during its grim wartime siege, emerged from the war as the engineer of the Kremlin's ideological and cultural "purges," and chief proponent of the policy of all-out hostility towards non-Communist Europe. His tough policy was an important element in provoking Tito's defection, and may be largely responsible for the great decline in Communist voting strength in Western Europe. Zhdanov's funeral, at which Premier Stalin played a tear-stained role as pallbearer, was one of the most elaborate since Lenin...
...thickened on the icons in the Russian churches in Palestine. Then in 1941, the Politburo ordered the churches reopened and dusted off the old czarist scheme. All Orthodox prelates in the Middle East were invited on a junket to Moscow to view the installation of Patriarch Alexei, hero of Leningrad...
...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...