Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business if the Kremlin paid its bills. On the U.S. Treasury books since 1945: Soviet debt for lend-lease goods usable in peacetime, originally set at $2.6 billion but later reduced to $800 million (of total wartime U.S. aid worth $10.8 billion). Last Soviet offer, made by hard-haggling Stalin in 1951: $300 million. Asked if he wished to reopen negotiations, Khrushchev beamed: "Of course, we'd be glad...
...German reunification: The new Khrushchev regime was "reasonably solidly based in the country," but if they had gone home proclaiming the reunification of Germany, "neither the army nor the people would understand, and this was no time to weaken the government. The people would say that this was something Stalin would have never agreed...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...
Died. George Walbridge Perkins, 64, longtime (1927-48) executive of Merck & Co., Inc., who as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1949-53) successfully urged Congress in 1950 to grant financial aid to an isolated, Stalin-defying Tito; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Russia's 1959 census, which reported a population of almost 209 million (v. a pre-1956 claim of 220 million), seemed to confirm what Western experts had long suspected: for the first decade after World War II, Stalin deliberately sought to conceal from the West how badly wartime casualties (between 15 million and 20 million) had cut into Russian manpower...