Word: zhukov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
From Yuri Zhukov, Pravda's expert on the U.S., Russian women got the party line on the New Look. Longer skirts for U.S. women, Zhukov reported, were a desperate effort of industrialists to bolster the shaky American economy and stave off depression. He wrote: "There is no trick left that American merchants have not resorted to in their striving to sell goods...
...Zhukov's timing was neat, for January is the show month of spring fashions in Moscow. Last week, in Moscow's white-silk-walled, many-mirrored House of Fashion, the newest creations of Russian designers were shown (see cut). The styles displayed proved that, barring an unlikely revolt by Soviet women, Soviet skirts would stay knee-short...
...Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price. One reason for low prices: in the auctioneer's showroom, the furnishings looked a bit shoddy...