Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was defending the denial of federal funds to pay for abortions. His remark was strongly reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's "Life is unfair" comment when asked why some military reservists were being kept on active duty following the Berlin crisis...
...frontline positions. During the long pauses between the fighting, he kept a war diary and even managed to complete several short stories based on his experience. Prussian Nights is the fruit of Captain Solzhenitsyn's participation in the rampageous march of the Red Army across East Prussia to Berlin in the last months of the war. As Solzhenitsyn tells it, men and machines were a motley...
...atrocities committed by vengeful Russian soldiers along the route to Berlin have been acknowledged as "excessive" even by Soviet military historians. Solzhenitsyn coolly chronicles the passage of troops through Prussia as they swill schnapps, set fire to towns and villages, rape and murder German civilians and loot houses of items ranging from vacuum cleaners to Vienna rolls. As the narrator, Solzhenitsyn at first remains aloof, offering a succession of vignettes of violence without comment. Only once does his voice break, seemingly to signify some greater grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless...
Despite the overwhelming odds against success, East Germans still keep trying to beat the fence. Last year some 573 fled over the Berlin Wall and across the frontier; in the first four months of this year, an additional 204 made it to the West. But many fail. American patrols have had to watch helplessly as escaping East Germans have been gunned down by the border guards. Under strict orders not to violate East German territory, the G.I.s cannot do anything to help unless the escapees manage to reach West German soil...
...Nabokovs fled from the Bolsheviks in 1919 and eventually settled in Berlin, where thousands of other White Russians established a culture in exile...