Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Little Peace Conference wound up in a festive blaze of cocktail and dinner parties. Preparations for the imminent Big Peace Conference began with a less festive scrubbing and whitewashing in Moscow's Moskva and Metropole Hotels. But the prospects for the meeting on which all of Europe's peace depends were not bright. The report to the Foreign Ministers, which the deputies turned in after a spell of predeadline frenzy, was largely a list of deadlocks...
Last week the Moscow evening daily, Vechernaya Moskva, told fascinated Muscovites (who get little crime news) the story of Serafima. The paper did not say what happened after her arrest, but keen readers noted that the stories always mentioned her in the past tense...
Snow melted as it fell and clouds lowered on Moscow's greatest anniversary celebration of the Red Revolution. Across the Moskva River an electric sign half a block long gleamed: SLAVA VELIKOMU STALINU ("Glory to the great Stalin"). Pravda said: "Thousands of [Stalin's] portraits swam over the columns of the demonstrators and his name, pronounced by millions of lips, went soaring above the harmony of the songs, above the powerful, continuous thunderclap of hurrahs...
...bank of the placid Moskva, close to the Kremlin, a prodigious peacetime project was resumed. The project: the erection of the world's mightiest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, dedicated to Soviet Russia's founding father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
Nearly all week the skies over Moscow were dull, dripping, cold. One evening, when damp workers were hurrying home or to night-shift jobs, the familiar voice of Announcer Yuri Levitan boomed at them from loudspeakers in the squares: "Govorit Moskva! [Moscow speaking!] Citizens, today at 7:40 there will be transmitted over the radio important news. Listen! . . . Citizens, listen...