Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking place in the Russia of 1905 at the time of widespread pogroms and persecution of the Jews Fiddler is a play of remembrance, appropriate to the Passover spirit. The setting is Anatevka a little town where tradition governs life, and Russians and the Jews live in peaceful coexistence. Through the experiences of the family to Tevye a milkman, we watch the traditions change as peaceful coexistence become open hostility and violence...
Next morning the visitors were taken to several schools in the region. At Lincoln High, moments before the Soviets arrived, the loudspeaker blared, "Students are reminded that our first responsibility is to make a favorable impression for our friends from the great country of Russia." On the front steps, Band Director Louis Oliverio had arrayed his finest musicians. He had worked feverishly to get the music to the Soviet national anthem, obtained it less than 24 hours before, and now the Cougar band got through it without a hitch...
About the late Soviet leader: "Brezhnev was pretty much of a lady's man . . . When we went down the line and there were a lot of-several-pretty girls . . . there with flowers and so forth welcoming us-this is in Russia-and he turned to me with a little wink, and he said, 'Would you want to take one of these with...
...week's end, however, most Western governments were attempting to down-play the event. "I think it's spring in Russia as well as in the U.S.," Reagan said, "and that's when you have war games and maneuvers." According to the President, the Soviet exercises were "regular and routine" and did not constitute any sort of political signal to the West. But he added a bit ruefully that NATO always advises Moscow in advance of its own war games, and he wished the Soviets would return the courtesy. "We always tell them when...
...Polish situation was heavy with the possibility of death and repression on a horrifying scale. Ever since the hand of Russia fell on Eastern Europe at the end of World War II, many have predicted that the satellites would one day rise up and "roll back Communism." In 1956, the freedom fighters of Hungary had battled Soviet tanks in the streets, but the U.S. had not rescued them. This memory was a stark warning to us. If the Poles were to rise in response to what they took to be a signal of encouragement from Washington and fight their...