Word: gomel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei was born in 1909 near Gomel in the small town of Gromyki, 90% of whose inhabitants are called Gromyko. He studied economics, got a master's degree in 1936, and lectured at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1939, he was abruptly appointed head of the American section of the Russian Foreign Office, thence was sent into the thick of high & low diplomacy, as counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push...
...read various morning newspapers. Among his literary favorites he includes, in addition to Russian classics, Hugo. Balzac, Goethe, Shakespeare, Mark Twain. His favorite U.S. movies include Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His father was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister living in Gomel. He met his wife in college, in Minsk...
...looked upon the carnage. It was an old sight. It had been thus at Stalingrad and Kursk, at Kiev and Gomel; it was the Red artillery's savage imprint...
...special pride is the secret Katyusha (endearing for Katherine), of which the Russians said, "Where Katyusha strikes, nothing lives." Newsmen guessed: it is a multi-barreled, electrically operated rocket gun, set roughly at a 45° angle. Last week U.S. movie audiences saw newsreels of the capture of Gomel, goggled at shots of Katyusha's rockets, streaking like lightning through clouds of dense smoke...
Russia. The Red Army's major gain: the great stronghold of Gomel, on the central front, abandoned by the Germans after 27 months. At Kiev, in the one area where the Germans had showed much strength, the Nazi counterattacks slowed...