Word: russians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long period of stress. They must cope with vast economic and technological problems, with provincial and local dissidents. If the U.S. recognizes the Red regime, it could maintain consular posts to observe the difficulties and possibly encourage opposition. Also, the presence of U.S. diplomats would tend to "inhibit" Russian moves to strengthen the Russian grip on China...
...blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions...
Sergei Yermakov '52, a Yugoslavian of Russian descent, left his homeland...
John Czernyha '51 was born in Poland. When the Germans invaded his Russian-occupied country in 1939, Czernyha was studying at the Lwow Medical School. Because he was actively engaged in several anti-communist youth organizations, the German invasion saved him and his family from deportation to Siberia...
Czernyha wants to go to Graduate School next year and would like to land a job with the State Department. With information from his homeland, he is writing a book about Russian concentration camps...