Word: kalinin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-sought victory over the Red army garrison at the big Black Sea port shrank to relative insignificance in the glare of the battle for Moscow. After capturing the bastions of Kalnga and Kalinin, the Nazis said, German forces were probing deep into the distressed capital's outer defenses...
...Kalinin, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, was mentioned for the first time in a Russian communique. It said fighting was especially fierce in that and in the Vyazma and Bryansk sectors, a tacit admission that Moscow was now half encircled, with the Germans battering their way along four main approaches...
...President Mikhail Kalinin there were worse bugs than those in the Soviet production machinery. Said he of his comrades: "They sit in a nest of bedbugs and discuss deep-mindedly what will be the peculiarities of men living under full-fledged Communism. They pronounce highbrow speeches on the education of children and breed bedbugs as best they...
...Moscow 1,000,000 copies of President Mikhail Kalinin's biography, A Book About the Leader, were issued, while sketches by Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Commissar for Internal Affairs Laurentius Pavlovich Beria are soon to appear. In a twelve-page edition of Pravda, Moscow Communist Party newsorgan, only one column was not devoted to Joseph Stalin on his birthday morn. In an editorial called "Our Own Stalin," Pravda declared: "Metal workers of Detroit, shipyard workers of Sydney, women workers of Shanghai textile factories, sailors at Marseille, Egyptian fellahin, Indian peasants on the banks of the Ganges...