Word: volgograd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guest as to where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States...
...Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's statues, as numerous as trees in the Siberian taiga, were hewed down, and the city of Stalingrad became Volgograd...