Word: belorussia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general's rank in the Red army and rapid advancement to the post of political commissar. While Khrushchev, in the days of German retreat from Russia, was liquidating the rebellious peasants who had sided with the Germans in the Ukraine, Bulganin was doing the same job in Belorussia...
From the viewpoint of a moderately successful Jewish merchant, the future in Bobruisk, Belorussia looked very dim after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...
...shrewd-guessing British yearbook, Jane's Fighting Ships, passes along a rumor that the keels of two other battleships, Strana Sovietov (the Country of Soviets) and Sovietskaya Belorussia (the Soviet White Russia), were laid in Archangel in 1942 and that these ships, which apparently had a higher priority than the first three, have been in commission a year...