Word: arsoli
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...such occasional idiocies do not prevent the Communist message from reaching the minds of thousands like a messianic revelation. In the village of Arsoli, a white-haired, sturdy old peasant woman described how the message came to her: "I think perhaps one is born with a Communist spirit, just like some people are born poets. I remember the first Abyssinian war with our terrible defeat, and watching the first swallows come from Africa that year. I remember, too, worrying when I was young about people like the carpenters, who built fine furniture but slept on trestles. Communism will...