Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black-Market Babies. The Soviet answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some U.S. women are so poor that they have to sell their children. Triumphantly he cited some news clippings that told of a black market in adopted babies...
June 27, 1944 (at Sachsenhausen). "A Ukrainian boy of 19 was hanged before the gateway . . . last night. [He] had been employed in the shoe factory. There he had taken two leather bags and cut shoe soles out of them. For which he was now to have 50 blows and then be hanged...
...Dmitry Manuilsky (longtime Comintern boss and now Ukrainian delegate to U.N.) "was a type of Russian Communist new to me. What struck me most was his outspoken cynicism . . . [He was] interested only in intrigue and [had] cold contempt for anyone who accepted the Comintern on the basis of its avowed aims and principles...
Died. Marshal Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, fortyish, billiard-bald commander in chief of Soviet armored, tank and mechanized troops, who led his tank army into a spectacular breakthrough on the Ukrainian front in December 1943; after long illness; in Moscow...
Ivan Petelka was tired of teaching Canadian immigrants to speak English. It was too tough-making Hollanders, Poles and Italians study a new language from scratch, especially one with such senseless spellings, impossible pronunciations and irregular conjugations. Petelka, an ambitious, 46-year-old ex-Ukrainian who had no trouble mastering eight languages himself, thought he could cook up a simpler system...