Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismay of the authorities, many Soviet young people have turned away from the stuffy ideal of the committed Young Communist Leaguer that was fostered by their elders. Now two generations beyond the terror-filled Stalin era and the suffering of World War II, the young are bent on having fun in all the ways taught by Western movies, visitors and foreign radio broadcasts. In and around Moscow last week, youngsters were boardsailing, skateboarding and hang gliding; practicing yoga, karate, kung fu and fad diets; exchanging Bruce Lee posters; disco dancing; listening to tapes of Diana Ross and ABBA; and going...
Only the mozzarella substitute in the pizza had a distinctively Soviet flavor; it was suluguni, a cheese from Soviet Georgia that used to be one of Joseph Stalin's favorite snacks...
...even writing it as a work of art, although it is literature in a deeper sense than anything I have ever done before. But I just don't know whether there is any art left in this world, or what art means." Following this veiled reference to Stalin's purges of the artistic intelligentsia, then raging in Moscow, Pasternak continued: "There are people who love me very much (only a few)... It is for them I am writing this novel, as if it were a long letter to them, in two volumes...
...served two terms in the Gulag for her association with Pasternak is well known. This book discloses for the first time that Pasternak's cousin Sasha Freidenberg, Olga's brother, was arrested in 1937 and died in the camps, one of the millions of innocent victims of Stalin's Great Purge. Sasha's wife Musya, who was arrested before he was, survived...
...were in jubilant spirits. From a mountain overlooking the valley, we could clearly see the Soviet camp. It had a triangular perimeter, with six self-propelled howitzers lined up neatly in a row, and next to them eight BM-21 mobile rocket launchers, well known to military experts as Stalin organs...