Word: popov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet QSL postcards, often printed in English, are government-made and attractively illustrated with monuments, public buildings, various war medals, and propagandistic puffs for Russian greats. A popular model carries a likeness of Alexander Popov (1859-1905), hailed by the Russians as the "inventor of radio...
Apparently the Fergana Valley is shot through & through with uranium deposits of various kinds. In 1923, V. I. Popov reported one at Uigar-sai that he said compared favorably to "many carnotite sites in the U.S.A." In 1928, intense radioactivity was reported at the western end of the valley...
...miracles of modern technology and science. But Moscow tells its children that that is just capitalist propaganda: Mother Russia really did it all. On "Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
...Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
...Budenny; Colonel General K. A. Vershinin; Marshal I. S. Konev; Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff; Marshal L. A. Govorov; N. A. Bulganin, Deputy War Minister; Zhdanov; N. A. Voznesensky, Chairman of State Planning Commission; N. M. Shvernik, Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; G. M. Popov, Party Secretary; A. N. Kosygin, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers; M. F. Shkiryatov, Member of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; N. S. Patolichev, Party Secretary; A. V. Khrulev, Vice Minister of Armed Forces; A. A. Kuznetsov, Party Secretary...