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Wrote the U.S.S.R.'s President Mikhail Kalinin in The Agitators' Guidebook, organ of Moscow's Communist Party: "We are often told that among our soldiers, especially those of older age, there are believers who wear crosses and recite prayers whom the younger people ridicule...
Counterattack (adapted from the Russian of Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman by Janet and Philip Stevenson; produced by Lee Sabinson) is a play about Russians and Nazis that could just as well be about cops & robbers. For three acts a Russian corporal and private stand guard -in a claustrophobic cellar whose entrance caves in-over seven disarmed but wily Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded...
...Others: World's Champion Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alekhine of France, The Netherlands' Max Euwe, Russia's Mikhail Botwinnik, Estonia's Paul Keres, Czecho-Slovakia's Salo Flohr, Manhattan's Reuben Fine...
Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
Georgy Zhukov fought in the Red Revolution, served and studied under the Red Army's famed mentor, Mikhail Frunze. He is a horseman and hunter, was successively a teacher at military schools, a staff officer and a field commander in the pre-1941 Red Army. Even Russians know little else about him, for General Zhukov has made it his business to stay out of the public prints...