Word: kvashnin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back to Your Masters." Tempers on both sides turned ugly. Strikers, armed with crowbars and clubs, battled with the Red strikebreakers. At the Tempelhof station, Major General Pavel A. Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief, barely got away when strikers tried to rough him up amid cries of "Kill him! Hang the fat swine!" When strikers stormed the Schöneberg elevated station, Communist railway police inside unleashed four police dogs. When this did not stop the strikers, the police gave up and were escorted through the crowd, to shouts of "Go back to your Russian masters...
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