Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...
...cheeked 66 and still an undeviating party liner, had a new and less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after...
...content with claiming the airplane, telegraph, radio and electric light as Russian inventions, Soviet propagandists have been staking out their claims in every branch of the arts & sciences. Among the many Russian scientists who "were discussing" evolution long before Darwin, say the propagandists, was the 18th Century scholar, Mikhail Lomonosov. Scientist Lomonosov was quite a fellow; he also invented the helicopter and developed the theory of conservation of energy...
Last week mighty Pravda (which claims 2,000,000 copies daily) gave three of its 24 columns to a claim that the principle of conservation of matter,* attributed by Westerners to Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin...
...Letter. Lomakin took over the telling of the tale. "Suddenly," he said, "she didn't arrive at the boat." Then he let slip the fact that two other teachers were on the loose: "At the same time they didn't come either on the boat Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin, teacher of mathematics, and his wife, teacher of Russian languages...