Word: nikolai
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...valleys where 12 million Afghans ride their horses and camels, herd their flocks, fight their feuds and tend their bazaars. The instinctive memory of it blew like a cooling wind across preparations for Afghanistan's latest invasion from the north, the visit of those part-time nomads, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...Nikolai started out being very good boys this year. What with Geneva and all, Kris and I both thought that things might change a bit around your place. But then came that trip. Oh, sure, I know you two had Nehru snowed, but he didn't give you many presents, did he? Of course, there's that flag that says "Indians and Russians are Brothers." But knowing the kind of guy you are, well, I really expected you'd get something more substantial...
Almost as one, Britons cried "foul" at the insults and distortions Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin have been strewing around Burma and India. They winced at being depicted as the deposed usurers and enslavers of Asia, but what angered them more was Khrushchev's distorted and reiterated cry that Britain, France and the U.S. had instigated World War II and sent the Nazis marching toward Russia. Britons remember too well when they stood alone against Hitler, and when Hitler felt safe to move against them because he had protected his rear by an infamous pact with Communist Russia...
Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...
...appeal hit the Indians' ears. "Judge for yourselves who is your friend and who are your enemies." For the visitors, it was a good note to end on. Packing up the accumulated crockery of three weeks of giftgiving, and leaving behind an accumulation of promises, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin prepared to move on. There was still more work to be done in Afghanistan...