Word: sochi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin left last Aug. 19 for his Black Sea retreat, Sochi. He has not yet returned from his longest vacation in years. However, the machine that carries out his will never rests. Last week world Communism was still gaining in power on several fronts, notably China; but it was sharply checked in the crucial battle for Europe...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin is reputed a restless sleeper; he rarely gets to bed before 2 a.m. But last week, Stalin sent the world a soporific greeting (with a wakeful edge). Six British Laborites, led by pro-Communist M.P. Konni Zilliacus, visited Stalin at his seaside villa at Sochi (where he recently ended his triumphal inspection of the Soviet Fleet-see cut). To his callers, the Generalissimo said...
Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President's scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he did in a highly retouched photograph (see cut) issued by Sovfoto, the official Soviet photo service. If Stalin imparted any immortal confidences and earth-shaking forecasts, Elliott hasn't revealed them...
...Afanassy Constantinovich Abrikosov, Stalin's doctor and a top Russian specialist in heart disease, privately told Soviet leaders that Stalin's illness consisted of a worsening angina pectoris. The diagnosis had been established by a medical council at Sochi the day before...
...Last week Stalin called a meeting of the Politburo and Orgburo at Sochi, and said it was time to name his successors for all party and Government posts. Pursuing his idea to retire (taken in 1945), he wanted the mechanism of power transferred before his death to the form it will take when he is gone...