Word: nikolai
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...Vigilantly guard the peace, the borders of our country and the creative work of our people [against] . . . the bandit interventionists in Korea!" The evening before, in the Bolshoi Theater, a select audience of top-level comrades & commissars heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...
Their Indian friends suffered ideological shock. Disturbed and dismayed, Nehru summoned his cabinet in emergency sessions. Impatiently he cabled his ambassador in Peking, bearded Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, who is proud of resembling Nikolai Lenin and who has an unshakable belief that India can get along with Lenin's disciples. Panikkar did not answer for two days. Then he belatedly confirmed the news, lamely explaining that he had first heard of it through the papers...
...There is no word for "zombie" in Russian. Quick-witted U.N. interpreters hit on pravitelstvo mertvykh dusk, or dead-souls' government, a phrase inspired by Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls...
...language of its own. Lenin had made some remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
...year ago, when Stalin purged Economics Planner Nikolai Voznesensky from the Politburo, a top U.S. diplomat in Moscow said: "Voznesensky made one big mistake. He tried too hard to please Stalin by turning out capital goods [to rebuild Russia] instead of consumer goods. He thought the Russian people could wait a little longer while he made a good showing. What the average Russian wanted was a pair of pants...