Word: fanina
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...attacks partly because he has long managed to remain a mysterious figure. He went to Mos cow when he was 16, where he joined the Komsomol and studied guerrilla tactics but later broke with Stalin. He rejoined his father in China in 1937, bringing with him his Russian wife Fanina, and from Taiwan has directed guerrilla activities against Red China...
...with Stalin on the issue of Trotskyism and put in some years of hard work in gold mines and factories. When the Japanese threat forged a new bond between Stalin and the Gimo in 1937, Ching-kuo was permitted to leave for China with his shy, appealing Russian wife Fanina and their son Alan...
...Chiang returns home for lunch alone with his wife. Quite often, Fanina, the Russian wife of his son Chiang Ching-kuo, is there with his two younger grandchildren, with whom he romps delightedly. He naps briefly in the afternoon, works on papers, then summons favorite ministers in the late afternoon. After dinner Chiang often watches a movie or reads Chinese philosophers and poetry. A favorite is Confucian Wang Yang-ming, who taught that "to know and yet not to do is in fact not to know...
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