Word: sochi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Clown Karandash to Producer Sergei Eisenstein. He also signed (for the party, with Stalin signing for the Government) the highly significant agricultural decree aimed against the mass, illegal reconversion of collective farms into private holdings. To emphasize the importance of Zhdanov's twin tasks Stalin, ailing at Sochi on the Black Sea, let Zhdanov have the place of honor on Lenin's tomb (see cut) at the Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 revolution. (A typical and revealing excerpt from Zhdanov's speech the night before: "It is precisely those remnants of capitalism in the people...
Around the world last week were anniversary celebrations of the 1917 Russian Revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power. Even Franco Spain was faithful in its fashion (see above). As usual, the most notable celebration was in Moscow. Notably absent: ailing, aging Joseph Stalin, 66, whom rumor put at Sochi on the Black Sea. where he rested for two months last autumn...
Stalin's return from Sochi was the conference turning-point. Suntanned and rested after his 68-day holiday, he had long separate sessions with Bevin and Byrnes. Soon afterwards the conference developed an obvious feeling of buoyancy, previously missing. Once more, apparently, Stalin had proved himself the only Russian who can make quick decisions. But if the log jam had been broken, the drive was still a long way from smooth water...
London thought that Moscow would drive hard for a Japan Control Council on the German one-power veto model. When Ambassador Harriman saw Stalin at his Sochi resort, the Generalissimo brushed off the Balkans and the bomb to concentrate on the Far East. The U.S. would scarcely give in to the Russian proposals on Japan, but the delegation that left this week was determined to try all paths to agreement...