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Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov seemed rather elderly (about 45) to be only a third secretary, which was the post he filled for the past three years in the Soviet embassy at Canberra. But Petrov appeared to wield more authority than his rank called for. Plump and spectacled, he paid little attention to the rules of purdah for Russians abroad-he was affable, a good mixer, spoke fair English, frequented hotel bars, went on fishing trips with Westerners. With his pretty blonde wife, an embassy stenographer, he lived in a comfortable brick house less than a quarter of a mile from...
...North America. If you have any questions about life in the Soviet Union, please let us know. We reply to listeners' questions every Saturday and Sunday in Moscow Mailbag at 9 p.m. EST. We also invite your music requests. Wishing you good listening. Sincerely yours, Radio Moscow I. Petrov, Letters Dept...
...spoke at a discussion of "Life Under the Soviets," sponsored by the Russian Immigrant Society. The discussion was moderated by Michael M. Karpovich, professor of History. The other, main speaker was Vladimir Petrov, who related his observations on Russia. He was a student in Leningrad in 1935 when he was arrested and sentenced to six years imprisonment for being an "enemy of the people." He is now teaching Russian at Yale...
...Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason...
...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...