Word: oksana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...
...Soviet woman, despite her sturdiness and resistance to hunger, cold, and suffering, cannot thrive on the misery that is her lot," said Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped from a third floor window last summer rather than go back to the U.S.S.R. Russian women, she said, "age fast and die prematurely...
Further assurance that the U.S. was in an unhappy way came from Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet consul general in New York, who was invited by the U.S. to go home last August after Oksana Kasenkina jumped from his consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets...
...Oksana Stepanovna Kasenlcina, now feeling "very, very good" and able to walk a little with a cane, checked out of a Manhattan hospital (in a wheel chair) 100 days after her leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...