Word: kukarka
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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...
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