Word: sverdlov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocket Rocket. Waddling happily to the rostrum of the Kremlin's marble-walled Sverdlov Hall, he greeted reporters with a grin as broad as the arc of a peasant's scythe. Even his normally glum interpreters, press officers and sword-bearers were smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned...
While Western leaders from Camp David to Bad Godesberg sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation...
...heart of their navy. The sub is basically a defense weapon, designed to deny the seas to an enemy. As any tourist can see, there is no military shipbuilding at the massive Kronstadt yards near Leningrad. The ways are jammed instead with commercial shipping; four cruisers of the Sverdlov class lie there still uncompleted. In tune with the defensive concept is the fact that the Russians have devised the most deadly mines yet known in warfare. One navy officer told me that "we couldn't get through their heavily mined waters if we wanted to without great-too great...
Bolsheviks leaped to the stage and wrested the Speaker's bell from Shvetsov's hand. The Bolshevik Sverdlov, ringing the captured bell, announced the opening of the Assembly for the second time. After a singing of the Internationale, Sverdlov invited the Deputies to become a rubber-stamp Parliament, warning us that "even from a formal point of view," any opposition to the Soviet regime was, in essence, illegal. Before murdering the Assembly, the Reds were giving it the option of committing suicide...
...Bolshoi Theater in Sverdlov Square that evening, the great red and gold curtain rang up on a new opera called The Decembrists, a propaganda piece about a rising of military officers in 1825, at the outset of Czar Nicholas I's reign. The Soviet Union's finest vocalists were on the stage, but opera was not the evening's sensation. Glancing towards the great state box, which dominates the glittering dress circle of the Bolshoi, the audience saw that it was impressively occupied. Sitting there, impassive, iron-mouthed, unsmiling, were the supreme leaders of the Soviet Union...