Word: cassino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive on Rome, contending that he might have destroyed the German army if he had chased the foe instead of the glory of being the first Allied commander to enter the Eternal City. He was blamed as well for the destruction of the famed Benedictine monastery atop Monte Cassino, although he vehemently opposed its bombing...
...incompetent and scandal-ridden former regime, including deposed Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. State television was filled with patriotic World War II films and other uplifting programming, such as an interview with a bemedaled old general who said he had known Jaruzelski since the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. (The man was mistaken; Jaruzelski fought in the Soviet army as it marched through Poland and on to Berlin. See box.) He sang the leader's praises and assured viewers that Jaruzelski was an honest soldier who did not have it in his nature to be a dictator...