Word: karakul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bear in Karakul. Much of Malinovsky's war was spent in the Ukraine -where he had the good fortune to come under the eye of Nikita Khrushchev, then a member of the military council for the Ukraine. In January 1943, just after Malinovsky's army had completed the southern arc of the encirclement of Stalingrad, Western correspondents recall meeting him in a tiny, unheated village schoolhouse, short-legged and big-hipped, like a grizzly bear in a brown greatcoat and karakul hat. He traced with a thick forefinger the movement of the fleeing Germans on a field...