Word: yuri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mostly, the Russians traveled in pairs. But tall, blond Yuri Alexandrovich Rastovorov, 34, walked out alone. Though rated only a second secretary, he was obviously a man of importance...
Death of a Rival. Zhdanov's own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin's backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter of apology for his "sharp and public criticism of Academician Lysenko." Three weeks later, Zhdanov Sr. died, presumably of a heart attack. In January the Kremlin shocked the world by asserting that Zhdanov had been murdered by a group of Soviet doctors, most of them Jews...
...author chosen to give this attack on authority a look of authority was Yuri Zhdanov, a biologist and son of the late Andrei A. Zhdanov, member of the all-powerful Politburo. In his plea for intellectual unorthodoxy he quoted texts by the leading authoritarians of Communism, Premier Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung. Obviously, the scientific "line" is still in the same strong hands...