Word: kazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conversion. "Molotov" is an underground pseudonym (Molot means hammer). Molotov was born Scriabin, the son of a store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...
...factories by last week had been stripped of some of their machinery, which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
Rumania. Passing through the twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...
...that the Soviet Government and foreign embassies had been evacuated from Moscow. Usually they were denied, but at week's end U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt admitted that he was keeping only a skeleton staff with him in Moscow, that the rest of the staff had been moved to Kazan, 450 miles east, the longtime Tatar capital near the upper Volga some 400 miles west of the Urals. It looked as if far Kazan would be the next Soviet capital if Moscow was evacuated...
...corner of Forsyth and Delancey Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...