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Archangel Flashcards

1
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“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem”

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Stalin

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2
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Beria’s bodyguard

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Papu Gerasimovich Rapava

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3
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Where is Rapava from?

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Mingrelia - NE shore of the Black Sea

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4
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Where is Beria’s house

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Vspolnyi Street

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5
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Minister for Internal Affairs

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Levrenty Pavlovich Beria

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6
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What word is used to refer to Stalin’s dacha

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Blizhny - Near

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7
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Hotel where Kelso interviews Rapava

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Ukrainia

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8
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Where is Stalin’s dacha

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Kuntsevo

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9
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Kelso’s full name

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Dr Christopher Richard Andrew Kelso - Fluke

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10
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Stalin’s full name

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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

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11
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Rapava’s matches

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Robotnik club - near the Dinamo stadium

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12
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What does Beria ask Rapava to look for on Stalin?

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A key

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13
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Note left behind by Beria

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ALARM

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14
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Rapava’s sentence

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Fifteen years hard labour, Kolyma territory

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15
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When did Rapava return to Moscow

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1969 - day of the moon landing

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16
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Where did Rapava work after prison?

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Engine sheds, Leningrad station

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17
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Where did Rapava’s son die

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Afghanistan - night ambush Mazr-i-Sharif

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18
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“To choose one’s victims, to prepare …”

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Stalin, in conversation with Kamenev and Dzerzhinsky

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19
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Chaperone for the conference

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Olga Komarova, Russian Archive Service (Rosarchiv)

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20
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What has Kelso been described as in a Sunday newspaper

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A battered Byron

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21
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Free newspaper being handed out outside symposium

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Aurora

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22
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Who wanted to buy the Party archive for $5m

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Hoover Institute

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23
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Who runs Aurora

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Vladimir Pavlovich Mamantov - eg KGB

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24
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How many delegates at the symposium

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91

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What does Robotnik mean?
Worker
26
What great forgery scandal does Adelmen compare Stalin's notebook to
Hitler Diaries
27
Quod volimus credimus libenter
We always believe what we want to believe
28
Journalist
RJ O'Brian - Moscow correspondent, Satellite News System
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The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe. Their dismemberment, always
Evelyn Waugh
30
What's the symbol for a book that was secret until 1991
c - slash
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Kelso's girlfriend when he was in Moscow
Irina
32
Where is Irina now?
Dental assistant in South Wales
33
Who writes about the rumours of Stalin's notebook
AA Yepishev
34
"medium machine"
Cover name for Soviet atom bomb programme - Beria's pet project
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Who has written Yephishev's entry in the Directory of Heroes of the Soviet Union
Mamantov
36
Russian Intelligence Service
SVR
37
Name of symposium
Confronting the past
38
Movies Stalin liked to watch
Tarzan
39
Lousy dancer - like a cow on ice
Khrushchev
40
Stalin's daughter
Svetlana
41
Why did Stalin hold Anna in solitary confinement
Because she talks too much
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Movie watched by Stalin, 8th December 1938, after signing death lists
Comedy - Happy Days
43
Nothing is more important to a nation than it's ...
... history
44
Painting of Stalin on the ramparts of the Kremlin
Gerasimov
45
Bust of Stalin
Vuchtich
46
Second version of Gerasimov painting misses out ...
Voroshilov
47
Suvourin's after shave
Eau Sauvage
48
Beria's old house became embassy of ...
Tunisia
49
Kelso's alma mater
St John's
50
Scholarship to ...
Harvard
51
Programme Keslo went to Moscow under
Students for Peace, 1980
52
Kelso's PhD thesis
Power in the Land: The Peasantry of the Volga region 1917-22
53
Boris Nikolaeovich ...
Yeltsin
54
Rapava's daughter's car
Lada
55
Rapava's daughter is studying ...
Law
56
Soviet anthem being played in Rapava's apartment
Party of Lenin
57
Rapava's apartment complex
Victory of the Revolution
58
Uzbeki bandit machine gunned in the Bablyon
Tsexer
59
Battle-cruiser shelling Winter Palace in 1917
Aurora
60
Kelso's plane leaves ...
Sheremetevo
61
Who tells O'Brian that Kelso is looking for Stalin's notebook
Adelman
62
Moscow newspaper for young Westerners
The eXile
63
Who has bought an icon and is worried about smuggling it out
Duberstein
64
What magazine does Kelso buy to read on the plane
Der Spiegel
65
Rapava's daughter's name
Zinaida
66
Airline flying Kelso to NYC
Delta
67
Where has Rapava hidden the Stalin papers
In a toolbox
68
Rapava's son's name
Sergo
69
Where does Zinaida work during the daytime
GUM - Switchboard
70
What else does Kelso find with the Stalin papers in Rapava's garage
Gun - Makarov
71
O'Brian's car
Toyota Land Cruiser
72
Name of girl who writes the entries in the Stalin notebook
Anna Mikhailovna Safanova
73
Magazine Anna Safanova's photo appears in
Ogonyok
74
River in Archangle
Dvina
75
Man who comes looking for Safanova on Stalin's behalf
Mekhlis
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Stalin's favourite brandy
Ararat
77
Archangel founded by ...
Peter the Great
78
Archangel's port
Severodvinsk - centre of nuclear sub construction
79
Archangel named after
Archangel Michael, the Warrior Angel
80
What is there to be consulted at Archangel Railway Statiion
Radiation meter - 15 microrads or below is safe
81
Road to Archangel from Moscow
M8
82
"If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods"
Stalin
83
Satellite phone
Inmarsat
84
Russia is owned by whoever has the biggest ...
... fists
85
Rapava's Rule No 1
Never show them you're afraid
86
Rapava's Rule No 2
You've only got one friend in this world - Yourself
87
Barman at the Robotnik
Aleksey
88
Inmarsat is over the ...
...Indian Ocean
89
Stolovaya
Old-style workers cafe
90
Safanova's old school
Maxim Gorky Academy - 1950
91
Safanova was in the ...
Komsomol
92
Party's candidate in last election
Gennady Zyuganov - current Communist Party leader
93
Headling on Aurora
VIOLENCE IS INEVITABLE
94
Title of Mamantov's memoirs
I Still Believe
95
Anna Safanova's parents
Mikhail and Vavara
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Name of company (Mamantov's) that has acquired Beria's old house
Moskprop
97
Anna's son adopted by ...
The Chizhikovs
98
Chizikhov
Stalin's pre-revolution alias - PA Chizikhov, 1911
99
Passports found in Stalin Jrs hut
Norwegian (Bergen)
100
Word at the top of documents in Stalin's hut
Confession
101
What did Lenin call the Tsarovich
The Living Banner
102
How do Surovin and the soldiers get to Stalin's hut
Snow plough
103
Moscow station where Stalin gets off the train
Yaroslavl
104
Who shoots Stalin
Zinaida

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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