Word: vissarionovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onto the screen, perhaps a fourth of the audience, gathered in Moscow last week for the first public showing of the 3½-hour feature film Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation), broke into spontaneous applause. Others remained coldly silent. At least one recalled aloud the suffering that had been caused by losif Vissarionovich Stalin...
Twenty years ago last week, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin turned 70, and the Soviet Union celebrated with a birthday party to end all birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...