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...soldiers captured by the Germans in World War II and then returned to the U.S.S.R. All these, from 1918 to 1953, flowed through the ports and channels of the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet penal state-within-a-state whose myriad prisons, interrogation centers and slave-labor camps stretched from Leningrad to Komsomolsk and variously engulfed some 60 million souls. Gulag also makes clear that Soviet justice evolved in a straight line from Lenin's suggestion that the judiciary be allowed to legalize terror into a system of extra-judicial reprisal in which police, interrogators, judge and jury were...
...host, Brezhnev has exuded good spirits about the visit and politely deferred to his guest as to where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach...
...purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals...
...danced with a purity of feeling and tautness of leg muscle that did not falter. Nureyev's staging was a light modern gloss on the original Petipa choreography. It was also an exercise in personal nostalgia: La Bayardère is the crown jewel of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet where Nureyev was trained...
...national pavilions, the $3 million, 62,000-sq.-ft. Soviet building is the most popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...