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Word: gruzinskaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published meticulous accounts of the damage -mainly broken windows-inflicted on the Soviet embassy in Bonn by German students protesting the execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter. Next day 2,000 Russian students and workers appeared before the West German embassy on Moscow's Bolshoi Gruzinskaya Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained façade of the embassy looked like a huge Jackson Pollock canvas, and more than 40 large windows lay in splinters. A similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Road to Serfdom | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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