Word: shtykov
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Most of the Russians stayed on the train, kept the curtains drawn. But Colonel General Shtykov, head of the delegation, went with his immediate aides to the Chosen Hotel. There a teetotaling young U.S. Signal Corps lieutenant, detailed as manager of the hotel, was driven to drink for the first time in his life by the Russians' policy of ordering and then refusing meals and other services. The lobby telephone disappeared, General Shtykov had to have it. The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried...
...residence. They ate turkey and trimmings, scowled but did not speak. After dinner the Americans entertained them with unaccountable selections from a full library of modern films. The feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...
...reporter asked one of them for General Shtykov's first name. He was rebuffed, with a curt: "That is classified information" (i.e., a military secret...
...General Shtykov's first name is Terenty...