Word: crimea
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...late spring and summer of 1942 would be a black time for the Soviet Union. An attempt to retake the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea failed. In May three Russian armies, the vanguard of a planned counteroffensive in Ukraine, were routed by German mechanized units in Kharkov. The Germans claimed to have captured 200,000 prisoners...
...PREMIERS of three (out of 10) Canadian provinces are unabashed NDP socialists, and no one has shipped them off to vacation in the Crimea...
When Gorbachev and his family went on vacation to the Crimea in early August, Chernyayev, 70, and other members of the presidential staff accompanied them, staying at a health resort called Yuzhny, some seven miles from the presidential compound. During the day, Chernyayev and his team worked in offices just a few yards away from Zarya, the Gorbachevs' dacha; one of their assignments was to help the President put the finishing touches on a speech scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 20, to mark the signing of his cherished union treaty, under which the center would be redefined and significant new powers...
Zarya dacha, The Crimea...
...pool together, sipping tropical drinks and trading old Ivy League administration stories. The Center could well become the new vacation hot-spot, a kind of intellectual rest home. Let's just hope we don't start hearing news stories about Neil Rudenstine taking a much-needed version in the Crimea...