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(The ruble's official value is 5.3 rubles to the dollar.)
Already Zhdanov's committee has singled out for reprimand a host of writers, editors, film directors and play producers who have veered away from the party line onto primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has...
Mother Russia clucked to her long-outcast brood in China. Thousands of White Russians, who have been stateless and scattered from Shanghai to Sinkiang since the Red Revolution, were suddenly offered Soviet citizenship. To return to the maternal wing, they had only to apply at the nearest Russian consulate, pay...
The Dominator. Marta Skavronsky entered the "tavern brawl" of Peter's Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner...
Besides a bigger quota, the Russians were reported to be interested in a high gold value for the ruble.