Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalinist distortions of the past, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian economist, singled out the name of an all-but-forgotten Stalin victim named Kossior as an example of the kind of injustice done by one-man leaders. What made his name significant was that Kossior, a Ukrainian leader who lost out in the late '30s, was purged so that Nikita Khrushchev could get his job. The new collective leaders are not above such instructive hints to one another...
...Komsomol (Young Communist) at the age of 17, he rose to be a regimental commander in the Red army, but in the early '30s transferred to the Osoby Otdel (Special Department) of the NKVD. Sent to the Ukraine, he worked with Stalin's Ukrainian troubleshooter, Nikita Khrushchev. Together they supervised the deportation and liquidation of hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. After the conquest and partition of Poland, Serov was assigned to the job of eliminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the newly annexed territories. Infamous secret order No. 001223, outlining procedures to be adopted for executions...
Last week's angriest demonstration occurred in Winnipeg, where a group of Ukrainian-Canadians gathered at the gates of the airport when the Russians landed. When a car with four husky passengers drove out, the crowd surged around it. Men and women screamed epithets in Russian, someone flung a black mourning wreath ("For Brothers Murdered By Bolsheviks"), and a husky demonstrator poked his fist through one of the car windows before word got around that the passengers were not Russians at all, but Mounties in civilian clothes. After that, the forewarned welcoming committee whisked the Russians through a side...
Desserts: Ukrainian cherry dumplings, ice cream, sugar buns, apricots, oranges, raspberries and apples...
Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...