Word: gorodisha
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...three more men, who in their turn had not loved him. But all these taken together, calling themselves Soviet Russia, he could not hate. He called it "Russia" himself, or sometimes "little Russia," and he loved its hills, its pastures, its woods; he loved his own village, Gorodisha; he loved the people who lived in the houses next to his." For Simonov, however, one suspects all these things are called Communist Russia, and this may partly explain his quiet pride in being a Communist. But what he is primarily concerned with is not the name, but the things themselves...
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