Word: simenov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly to the tootlings of brass bands. A new play, Russian People, by the war poet, Constantino Simenov, was in rehearsal in hundreds of Soviet theaters. Soviet motion-picture Director Alexander Dovzhenko said that all Russian newsreels purposely showed "the visual aspect of war, completely and unflinchingly" (in contrast to U.S. official squeamishness about the facts of war and death...
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