Word: stalina
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...tyrant's appeal transfigured a shell-shocked country. Suddenly a hopeless cause became the Great Patriotic War. Even those who hated Stalin -- like the novelist Victor Nekrasov -- remember rushing into combat crying "Za rodinu, za Stalina!" (For the motherland, for Stalin!). The reanimated Russians could also count on a perennial ally: Father Winter...
...London publisher to another showing his wares. But publisher after publisher turned him down-and with good reason. Not that his price was too high. Indeed, he was asking for no money at all. And his manuscript was certainly topical: it was a copy in Russian of Svetlana Stalina's memoirs. Reason for the publishers' turndown: they all knew that the legal rights to the book had already been sold for a record $3,200,000 to other U.S. and British publishers, who plan to bring it out in October under the title Twenty Letters to a Friend...
...mission to the U.S., had "decided that he wishes to become a permanent resident of the United States, and it is our understanding that he is submitting a letter of resignation to his government." Thus last week, little more than two months after the defection of Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, another Communist VIP made the big switch. The highest-ranking Communist diplomat ever to have defected to the West,* Radványi was, in addition, an invaluable source for U.S. intelligence on recent events in the fast-changing countries of Eastern Europe...
...going to become a very rich woman," said Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, 42, when she arrived in the U.S. "It is absolutely impossible for me to become a rich person here." She planned to give away large sums, and had no idea how much money she would be making. But, as every immigrant knows, America is a land of opportunity. Since she arrived, bids to publish and serialize her 80,000-word memoir, Twenty Letters to a Friend, have poured in from much of the world. The Book-of-the-Month Club, for instance, last week paid...
...Svetlana Stalina's comments [April 28, May 5] are truly inspiring...