Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow, Idaho, has the innocuous call letters of KRPL, but Glendale, Calif, strikes a Ukrainian note with station KIEV. Stations KORN and KOB are in South Dakota and New Mexico, but corn-fed Iowa gets into the act with Mason City's station KRIB, while Texas pays tribute to its cattle with station KINE...
...philosopher is one who is capable of making distinctions. TIME can well be placed in that category [with] its article on Vydvizhenets Khrushchev [Nov. 30], which brought to light a distinction that the Ukrainian people staunchly and vigorously uphold . . . You have rendered these people great justice by rightly acknowledging them as a nation not to be" confused with Russia . . . a distinction which surpasses the attention . . . of many a statesman. TIME alone . . . has understood precisely that the Ukrainians . . . are truly "proud of their mother tongue, and do have a national pride that centuries of conflict . . . have not dimmed but glorified...
Recalled to Moscow in 1949, Khrushchev warned his bosses that "Ukrainian enemies of Communism have entered the service of Anglo-American imperialists." It was his way of saying that trouble was brewing in the land...
...Purger. The measure of Khrushchev's failure came in World War II when millions of Ukrainians went over to the Germans without a fight. Stupidly rejecting this free offering, the Nazis launched a mass slaughter which so aroused the survivors as to provide the Red army with a vast guerrilla underground that slashed at the Wehrmacht's rear. Khrushchev, a lieutenant general, commanded a Ukrainian guerrilla army, and won a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Political commissar for all Russian armies on the southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans...
Director Avrutin's Stakhanovite methods produced more than 22,000 paintings this year, "but the quality, because of desperate hurry, is below any criticism." Concluded Soviet Culture sadly: "It is time for the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic to take this factory under closer control...