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Word: fyodor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin, commander of the Third Ukrainian Army, made a bear of a speech at a vodka-and-compliments party celebrating a Russian-American linkup. After praising American womanhood for its part in the war, he spied in a corner a uniformed American girl. The Marshal flamboyantly removed a ribbon from his tunic, pinned it on the American working girl. She was Doris Duke Cromwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: In Hitler's Shadow | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Among the guerrillas Sergei met Fyodor, whose pregnant wife had been bayoneted to death by Nazis, his child daughter raped. Fyodor and Sergei were sent to dynamite a Nazi radio station. Fyodor dispatched a Nazi sentry with "a brief flash of his knife blade." The Germans were "perfect targets." Sergei's and Fyodor's bullets "tore into their bodies." The two Russians dashed home in a stolen Nazi truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catalogue of Killing | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Then Sergei and Fyodor were sent to a German-occupied town "to destroy . . . anything ... of any value to the enemy." On the outskirts of the town they met an old peasant woman who offered to help them. They were suddenly attacked by two Germans, Fyodor drove his knife into the body of one; Sergei twisted a short piece of rope around the other's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catalogue of Killing | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

After that Sergei went to sleep. He woke to find Fyodor had done in another Nazi: "The throat had been cut in a straight line above the Adam's apple." Sergei and Fyodor went out and saw a Nazi troop train; the Germans tried to jump out, "but their bodies, bored with steel-tipped bullets . . . fluttered to the ground like insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catalogue of Killing | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Then Sergei found that his wife Natasha was being kept nude in a Nazi soldier's brothel. He and Fyodor rushed the brothel, were stopped by a sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catalogue of Killing | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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