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Born for Tomorrow. The Petrovs were children of peasants. First war, then the Revolution, disrupted the life of the primitive villages in which they were born-his in Siberia, hers near Moscow. The two entered the sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because...
...steel-shod Russian jackboot heeled down on Hungary this week, stamping and grinding out the vestiges of a daring young democracy. A force of 4,500 Soviet tanks, crack paratroops, MVD storm guards, and a quarter-million Red army infantrymen drawn from the remote wastes of Muscovy swept through the brown fall countryside, overwhelming towns and villages, smashing isolated Hungarian army resistance, and sealing off the country...
...Flowing Vodka. Actually, the biggest crack in the Kremlin's poker face is the regular appearance of the Soviet bosses at parties where vodka flows freely, and Khrushchev and Bulganin make a production of slapping correspondents on the back, playfully rumpling their hair. Often as not, when MVD guards try to keep correspondents at a distance, Bulganin or Khrushchev brush the guards aside, booming: "Let the correspondents in. They're our friends." What with cocktails and confusion, B. & K. are sometimes misunderstood and misquoted. For this reason resident correspondents repeatedly urge Khrushchev to hold press conferences instead...
Bachmann was born in East Germany and was forced to join the Communist Youth movement in 1949. He became a member of a resistance movement, and in 1950 he was arrested and tried by the Soviet MVD. "The only evidence against me," Bachmann said, "was the distribution of "Readers Digest,' for which I was sentenced to 25 years at hard labor...
...authority on Soviet affairs, Journalist (London Observer) and Author (Cracks in the Kremlin Wall) Crankshaw has had ample occasion to study political terror. But when he turned from the Communists' MVD to the Nazis' Gestapo, he found a vast difference in attitudes. There was a mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled...