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Commissar. Born the son of a miner in the tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, just a few feet away on Acheson's left, listened intently on the new plastic earphones that look like a hearing aid and scribbled endlessly, his face impassive. Once, he leaned over to the Ukrainian delegate, jutted out his chin and laughed...
...goes, reporting all the horrors he can remember and imagine-a "flag made of human skin" fluttering in the breeze, the rows of crucified Jews he saw on a Ukrainian steppe, the time an Allied general served his guests a boiled child (or was it relly only a fish that looked almost human...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...