Word: nikolais
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...young man in Moscow and a dutiful member of the Young Communist League Organization in the late '30s, Nikolai Khokhlov was only interested in becoming an actor and eventually a movie director. He played a few bits in Russian plays and movies, and even made himself a small reputation on the variety stage as an "artistic whistler." When the Nazis invaded Russia, he volunteered for frontline duty, but was rejected because of bad eyes. As the Nazis drew near to Moscow, however, Khokhlov was recruited, along with many other young actors and artists, by the NKVD...
Tears & Fire Hoses. Denied more information about -Petrov, Australians' curiosity turned to the fate of his young wife, Evdokia Petrov. Red-eyed from weeping, she appeared at a press interview in the Russian embassy, where Ambassador Nikolai Generalov attacked Menzies' account of the case as "utter nonsense" and backed up Mme. Petrov's statement that her husband had been "kidnaped...
...Moscow's Red Square, according to a Pravda announcement, the pyramidal tomb which the embalmed remains (or a reasonable facsimile) of Nikolai Lenin now share with the body of Josef Stalin will be opened to the faithful this week for the first time since Stalin's death...
...what Communism was about, because he had once been a Communist. Fighting on the Russian front in World War I, he was wounded and captured by the Czar's army. They set him to work in the coal mines, south of Moscow. The Red Revolution freed him, and Nikolai Lenin himself made Reuter a commissar in the new U.S.S.R. His boss in the Commissariat of Nationalities was Joseph Stalin, whom he afterwards dismissed as a man with "the mind of a sergeant...
...mental-health congress in Vienna last week, before psychiatrists from 41 nations, Professor Nikolai Oserezski laid down the Soviet line: the brain operation known as lobotomy "is an anti-physiological method that violates the principles of humanity...