Word: leninland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position was given...
...Caucasus, Sunday is called Lenin Day because the great Red Chief was buried on a Sabbath (TIME, Feb. 4). A report that Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
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