Word: leonov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin's masters tell the Russian people that the West has forgotten their great sacrifices in the war. In an eloquent Pravda article, Leonid Leonov, a Russian novelist, cried: "Under [Russian] ground, 7,000,000 warriors lie buried, the men who defended the world against the dark forces. . . . The more easterly the meridian on which blood is shed, the cheaper the blood." In fact, the West does not forget-or hold cheaply-the Russian people, dead or living. It would know more about them except for restrictions imposed by the Kremlin's masters. Last week TIME Correspondent Samuel...
...chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party, is now the chief executor of the Politburo's intensified domestic policy. The new Soviet line was a perfect example of Lenin's way of thinking about foreign policy, as explained by the Soviet theoretician, M. Leonov...
...produce of these theaters is nonpolitical. Their repertories are extremely broad. Probably nowhere in the world can you find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...
...Tomorrow . . . a new life will begin for us," brings tears to Russian eyes. That is their real hope now. And yet, this confidence is not unmixed with uneasiness. The Russian theater knows it cannot detach itself from politics in the largest sense of the word. The other day Leonid Leonov suddenly broke off a discussion of play writing to say with great emotion: "But if in the world of tomorrow a three-year-old girl may be shot, as I have seen one shot by our enemy, then I say now that astronomical observatories are a lie, medical laboratories...