Word: ogonek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promised land. On the kolkhozy (collective farms), a visitor is apt to meet a Znatnaya Doyarka (Distinguished Cow Milking Woman). One of the latest additions to the new Soviet aristocracy is Honorable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, whose picture (see cut) was published in a recent issue of Ogonek (Small Flame...
...could Soviet physicists avoid such denunciation? The way was clear. In Ogonek (Little Flame), Professor Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, explained: "A Soviet scientist considers any successful work as impossible, in any field of knowledge, without a thorough mastery of the laws of dialectical materialism." Professor Vavilov is something of an authority on such matters. His brother Nikolai, a famous Russian geneticist and an opponent of Lysenko, disappeared mysteriously about 1942 and is believed to have died in a concentration camp...
William Shakespeare was still popular in Russia. The U.S.S.R. is the only place where he is universally appreciated, explained a poem in the Russian weekly, Ogonek: "Shakespeare's spiritual home is in Russia...
Commencement time had come & gone again. To schoolchildren the world over it meant once more a time of haunting fears and vaunting dreams, a time when anything seemed possible. What did some of them hope for? In Soviet Russia the magazine Ogonek (The Little Light) polled a few of the 200,000 young folk ready to enter universities this year, reported their notions of what lies ahead...
...world got one of its rare glimpses of long-lipped Major General Vasily Yosifovich ("Vasya") Stalin, 28, Stalin's favorite son. † Ogonek, a Soviet picture magazine, showed him at the controls of a plane, commanding the air show over Moscow's May Day parade...