Word: gorki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, the fall of Sevastopol had been near. But the Russians had been stubborn. German artillery blazed point-blank at the concrete, steel and limestone of Maxim Gorki " Fort. Bombs chewed great craters in its upper levels. At 800 yards, then at 500, the mouths of the fort's 13-in guns yawned at the attackers, so close that the pressure from the blasts crushed tanks and men, and the orange and crimson flames seemed to singe the dead. When the Germans at last swarmed over the fort, a Nazi radio reporter's voice crackled with epic exasperation...
Stalin said: . . . These people, devoid of conscience and honor, people with a morale of beasts, have the impudence to call for the destruction of the great Russian nation, the nation of Plekhanov, of Lenin, of Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Gorki, Chekhov, Sechenov and Pavlov, Repin and Surikov, Suvarov and Kutuzov...
...Gorki, son of an upholsterer, himself a worker in the railway shops of Tiflis, wrote of tramps and social outcasts with the familiarity of a man who was one. A city took his name. Chekhov made heroes and heroines of people who suffered. Sechenov and Pavlov, the greatest Russian physiologists, tried to analyze suffering...