Word: boleslavski
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...same patriotism and the same ideals." Russia promised Poland freedom if the Allies won; the Central Powers promised freedom too. Patriotic Poles in the opposing armies, just to make their country's freedom doubly sure, shot each other on sight. On the Russian side was Actor Boleslavski of the Moscow Art Theatre. As an officer of the Polish Lancers he had a dashing part to play. "During the war, and later during the Revolution, we wandered in and out of the confusion, always a little detached from all of it. Though we fought and were killed, we were...
...honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from the War. Mixing with a mob of soldiers he got away to Moscow and another life. Way of the Lancer, written in collaboration with Helen Woodward, is the March choice of The Literary Guild...
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