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...Moscow headquarters of the Committee of Soviet Women. Reading from a prepared text, she said that she had returned to Moscow of her own free will. "I could no longer stand this family separation," she explained, referring to the two children by former marriages, Josef Morozov, now 38, and Yekaterina Zhdanova, 32, she had left behind in Moscow. She said she had been naive about life in the U.S. and had be come a "favorite pet" of the CIA. Said Svetlana: "Having found myself in the so-called free world, I was not free for a single...
Worst of all she was tortured by longing for the children she had left behind, Joseph, now 38, and Yekaterina...
...Died. Yekaterina A. Furtseva, 64, Soviet Minister of Culture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Furtseva joined the youth branch of the Communist Party as a teen-age worker in a textile plant, then climbed through a series of party posts. Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Medvedev singles out a number of people who have made notable efforts to discredit Solzhenitsyn. For instance, Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva helped prevent Solzhenitsyn from receiving the 1964 Lenin Prize for Literature, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet correspondent noted for providing leaks on Soviet policy shifts to the Western press. The author describes him as a "special agent of the KGB." Louis, claims Medvedev, planted a stolen copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward with the Russian emigre publication Posev, which is based in West Germany...
...flirtation of the week took place at the Russian embassy in Washington, which gave a reception for Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva -61, blonde, and the highest-ranking woman in the Soviet Union. Straight from the airport with a fresh San Clemente suntan, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger came to meet her. Someone asked if Kissinger would have the same success with the ladies in Moscow that he does in Hollywood. Furtseva (twinkling at him over the vodka and caviar): Bolshe (Bigger). Kissinger (twinkling back): I hope you have a heart specialist in Moscow. Furtseva: Don't worry. I am surprised...