Word: sverdlov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Affairs, which analyzes Nikita Khrushchev's spectacle of vilification in Sverdlov Hall and what effect it has had on himself, the world and the presidential campaigns of both Republicans and Democrats...
...level of invective without precedent even in cold-war diplomacy. The attack was no vodka-party indiscretion, no impulsive reaction to provocation, but a premeditated assault, carried out in front of 400 Russian and foreign newsmen at a Khrushchev press conference in the Kremlin's domed Sverdlov Hall.* With Communist newsmen serving as a claque, Khrushchev's sallies drew such loud laughter that a listener outside the door of Sverdlov Hall might have thought some great Russian comedian was holding forth inside. The official Tass transcript was sprinkled with such notations as [Gay animation in the hall...