Word: smolensk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been restored, although individual decrees are now available. Since about 1956, there has been a "greater flow of materials" from the Soviet Union to the West, Fainsod says. But very often, however, the key documents come through fortuitous accidents, like the Smolensk archives Fainsod used for his Smolensk under Soviet Rule. These documents were captured intact by Nazi forces invading the U.S.S.R. during the Second World...
Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, has received the annual Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press. The award, presented by President Pusey at a Faculty Club luncheon yesterday, was for Fainsod's recent book Smolensk under Sovlet Rule...
Based on the "Smolensk Archive" which fell into German hands during World War II, the book gives a vivid picture of the lives of the people in government, industry, farming, education, and other occupations in one rural province of Russia from...
...mistakes Moscow has made in Poland date back to 1938, when Dictator Stalin liquidated almost the entire leadership of the old Polish Communist Party. The Stalin-Hitler pact, by which Germany and Russia partitioned Poland for spoils, the massacre of 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in 1940, the failure of Russia to aid the underground Polish armies, and the deliberate stand-off by the Red army during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in 1944, are Russian crimes which Poles do not easily forget. Nor, apparently, do Polish Communists. The recent downgrading of Stalin...
...been lying all along just beneath the thin veneer of cheerfulness. "The Soviet people cannot forget ... the shooting of 70,000 people at Babi Yar ... the millions of people shot, gassed or burned alive in the German concentration camps . . . Majdanek . . . Oswiecim . . . Kharkov." It rolled out like a litany. "Smolensk . . . Krasnodar . . . Lvov." The 9,626 imprisoned Germans were paying for those crimes, said Bulganin. If they were released at all, it could only be through negotiations in which Adenauer would have to sit down with the East German Communists...