Word: vissarion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
...Russia's leading literary critic tried his hand at prophecy. Wrote Vissarion Bielinsky: "We envy our descendants who are destined to see the Russia of 1940, standing at the head of the educated world, imposing its laws in science and art, and receiving the respectful homage of the whole of enlightened humanity...
...year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's pious mother christened him Joseph, after the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus...
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