Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer was made by way of the Warsaw (formerly Lublin) Polish Government, which indicated that it might be willing to trade Teschen in return for Czech recognition. The threat was made by way of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, whose Kiev radio unexpectedly broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles...
...respect the Republic's pre-Munich frontiers. But last week Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among the peasants...
...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
...risk than the R.A.F., which previously did it from bases over 800 miles away. But whether the Russians would try to cross the Vistula and storm the bluffs held by the Germans was still uncertain. The Russians have a more economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could be forged; the northern arm was being brought to white heat as Rokossovsky drove northwest of Praga...
Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...