Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians apparently have no desire to end the exchanges. Last week the U.S. opened its eighth State Department-sponsored exhibit in the Soviet Union, in the Ukrainian industrial city of Kharkov 400 miles south of Moscow...
...display was an instant hit. Following a friendly welcoming speech in Ukrainian by the mayor, nearly 10,000 luxury-hungry Kharkovites a day carefully examined the exhibit in a barnlike gym in a city park. Though the items on display ranged from handsaws to hammers (but no sickles), favorite attractions included such house hold gimmicks, enthralling to the average Soviet citizen, as magnetic paint guns, electric mixers and carving knives and power mowers...
Meeter & Greater. Mikoyan's succes sor as Soviet chief of state is Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, 62, who rose to power as a protege of Nikita Khrushchev's. A hard-bitten Ukrainian with little experience in foreign affairs, Podgorny's main claim to power in the hierarchy was his control of party cadres-a job he may well lose as a result of his "elevation." The Soviet presidency is largely ceremonial, and without strong party posts its occupant is little more than a meeter and greeter. Podgorny, in short, seemed to have been kicked upstairs, with one nagging...
Died. Angelica Balabanoff, 96, high priestess of socialism, a Ukrainian landowner's daughter turned revolutionary at age 19, confidante to Lenin and First Secretary of the Third Communist International, who broke with Communism in 1921, exposing her former heroes (My Life as a Rebel, Impressions of Lenin), but remained an unshaken believer in socialism, thereafter lending her support to Italian Social-Democrat Giuseppe Saragat and the U.S.'s Norman Thomas; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Rome...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...