Word: lubianka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...
This was the Kremlin's worst blunder in years, and last week Western diplomats were wondering which of their old acquaintances in the Soviet Foreign Ministry had been shot as a result. If any did go to the basement at Lubianka prison, they were unjustly punished. The inscrutable American is a hard man to guess, as Wilhelm and Tojo and Hitler found out. The Kremlin knows a lot about the U.S., but even if it had had a spy in the Cabinet of the Joint Chiefs, it could not have predicted the U.S. reaction. Even American observers were amazed...