Word: roza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin big shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed...
...tomb, watching the Red Square parades pass by, one mustachioed figure was always seen quite close to Stalin. He was First Deputy Premier Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, onetime tanner's apprentice who became an able and ruthless administrator. Stalin was rumored to have married Kaganovich's sister Roza, though this has never been established as fact...
Through a long summer she copes with daughters, coddles temperamental Roza the cook, and Toona the city-bred maid, who remarks ominously that "the country is awfully quiet." She gets distractedly involved in the church fair and in the problem of finding an extra man for a "little dinner" ("Charles says . . . he will attend to it. Am stunned with gratitude and surprise...
...Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...
...immediate family" was summoned -that apparently included son Vasily, 32, lieutenant general of the air force, and daughter Svetlana, 30. No mention was made of Stalin's third wife, Roza, sister of his longtime comrade Lazar Kaganovich. The gasping old man never awoke to say goodbye. At 9:50 o'clock that night, as a wintry wind howled past Kremlin battlements built by the Czars, he died...