Word: semyon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page pamphlet The Secret Front, printed in a 250,000-copy edition, Semyon Tsvigun, Andropov's chief aide, calls for "intensifying the people's vigilance" as a "guarantee that foreign agents will be exposed." Any American Soviet citizens may meet in the U.S.S.R. is likely to be a spy, the book asserts. According to KGB Policeman Tsvigun, the 90,000 American tourists who visited the Soviet Union last year were obliged to submit a written report to U.S. authorities on their return home...
Many psychics and their followers believe that paranormal powers may be dependent on mysterious auras or "energy flows," phenomena that they say can be recorded by Kirlian photography. The technique, developed in the late 1930s by Russian Electronics Expert Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina, involves introducing a small amount of high-voltage, high-frequency current into the subject and recording the subsequent discharge on photographic film. The result is a photograph showing an "energy body"?a weird aura?around the plant, animal or human part being photographed...
...Died. Semyon M. Budenny, 90, Russian war hero celebrated in song and story for his guerrilla cavalry exploits during the Russian civil war of 1918-21; in Moscow. A chunky, instinctive fighter with an elaborate mustache, Budenny was named one of the original Red Army field marshals in 1935 and commanded the ill-fated southern army during World War II. Budenny won the Order of Lenin eight times, most recently in April of this year...
Died. Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko, 75, one of the architects of the German defeat on the Eastern front in World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. The son of a landless peasant Timoshenko deserted the Czarist Army 1917 to join the Bolshevik Revolution and became one of Soviet Communism's staunchest soldiers. A favorite of Stalin, he rose to the rank of Marshal at the age of 45, won a reputation for tenacity and rigorous discipline if not for tactical brilliance He was called in to bolster the sagging Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and led five armies...