Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
...ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials...
Junior Vice President. "In theory Vassily got his orders from Nikita Khrushchev,* governor of the Ukrainian Republic ... in practice, however, he preferred to take his troubles to his guardian angel among the heavy brass-a handsome young man named I. S. Senin, vice chairman, of the Council and one of Boss Khrushchev's fair-haired boys...
...Politburo Member Nikita Khruschev announced a "mass replacement of the [Communist] Party's leading personnel" in the Ukraine, the Soviet republic with the strongest separatist tendencies, and the area that suffered most from the war. Gone were "about half" of the Ukraine's executives, including 64% of the heads of regional Soviets and 67% of the directors of tractor stations. To replace their "bourgeois-nationalistic conceptions," Khruschev said that special party schools would be set up to give the new leaders (29 years after the founding of the Soviet Union) proper "ideological-political training...
...produced by Leon Greanin) stirred up memories rather than reactions. It evoked the gay Chauve-Souris revues of the '20s, when the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers seemed the most rollicking of tunes and Katinka the most "Rahsshan" of maidens, and the late Master of Ceremonies Nikita Balieff talked unbelievably dreadful English with unforgettably droll results. Katinka and the Wooden Soldiers are still on hand, but Balieff unhappily...