Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exchange of Prisoners. The Russians arrested the city government's anti-Communist coal administrator, who had defied a Russian demand for his resignation but imprudently stayed at work in his Russian-sector office. The British arrested the German head of the Russian-sector criminal police, who had gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist...
Other Bulkes alumni described the indoctrination course given at the camp. Lecture topics included "The Communist Victory in the Chicago Strikes," and "The Ineffectiveness of the Atomic Bomb." (Students were told that the bomb had been tried out in the U.S. and had not even killed a goat.) The Russian language was taught because "it was bound to become the universal language...
Because no Russian had showed up at the get-together, the Peruvian Ambassador wrote the Soviets' charge d'affaires, Nikolai Belokhvostikov, inviting him to join in. A week passed without an answer. Then Benavides' secretary phoned the Soviet embassy; he explained what was planned, suggested that the letter must have gone astray, and added that he was sure that Belokhvostikov would want his name on the box. "It is not customary," snapped the Russian as he hung...
Upstairs & Downstairs. Members of the U.S. colony in Budapest have dubbed the statue "the Tobacco Auctioneer." Hungarians say she holds the victory palm aloft because the grim, 18-ft. figure of a Russian soldier that stands below her on the pedestal might steal it. But these cracks fail to bother De Strobl. "The figure upstairs," he explains, "is international. The figure downstairs is Russian. Many Russians lost their lives here, after...
Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...