Word: vasili
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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...
...Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...
...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
Shvernik's successor as trade-union boss, and perhaps as Vice President of the Soviet Union, is Vasili Vasilevich Kuznetsov, who is even more cosmopolitan than Shvernik-he was educated at Carnegie Tech and worked in a U.S. Ford plant. When he returned to Russia, he reported so enthusiastically about his life & times in the U.S. that friends kept snapping: "Well, if you liked it so much there, why don't you go back?" Conforming to Peter's Western ideal, he is clean-shaven...
...chief of its delegation (which included seven women) was 44-year-old trade-union chief Vasili Kuznetsov, a rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter Citrine,* who spoke for British labor. The U.S. delegation, led by P.A.C. Chairman Sidney Hillman and U.A.W. President Rolland Jay Thomas, spoke only for the C.I.O. The A.F. of L. had haughtily refused to sit down with the Communist Russians...