Word: skaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was also on in Finland. A Moscow propaganda barrage last week accused Finland of breaking her peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Leningrad-skaya Pravda ominously reminded the Finns that they had received their national independence from the Soviet Union in 1917, and that "further consolidation of their state sovereignty ... is possible only by carrying out a policy of sincere friendship with the Soviet Union." Added Leningradskaya Pravda: "The anti-popular activity of Finnish reactionaries is inspired by overseas reaction. Finland is within the orbit of the keen attention of Anglo-American imperialists who are hoping to draw...
Esther L. Witkowska, a Pole, who was deported to work in the Degtyanka copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
...program, in order of presentation, is a follows: Schubert's Tragic Symphony, the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerts, Turkish March from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Kamarin Skaya by Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of Buffoons from the Snow Maiden...
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