Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abraham slipped through the front lines and joined the Russian army. "I want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
...Wasowski was known only in Lwow, where he took lessons from his piano-teaching mother and played solos with the Lwow Philharmonic Society. When the Russians entered Poland they heard his fiercely impassioned interpretations of Chopin, packed him off to play in Russia. In Kharkov he performed nine times in three days ("It got too much for my nerves but I must say, it improved me technically"). After 186 Russian concerts, he returned to Lwow and got there just a few days before the Germans...
...Kremlin hurriedly sent to Kharkov for Professor V. Vorobiov, who had developed some of the world's finest injection needles to demonstrate to his anatomy students the workings of blood vessels. With his needles Vorobiov and an assistant named Schabadach injected a solution of formalyn sublimate, skin-colored dyes and ordinary embalming fluid directly into Lenin's skin and tissue, centimeter by centimeter. The painfully minute "tattooing" operation took a month to finish. For years Schabadach made monthly visits to check the body's condition and add further injections as needed...
Cities and countryside alike had been devastated. Fischer found Poltava and Kremenchug "worse than Berlin," his previous superlative of destruction. Kharkov was almost as bad. The great Donbas industrial basin was one wide ruin. Rural areas were little better...
...Accuse (Kharkov trials documen tary; TIME, June...