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Word: lubianka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flesh Is Weak | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

This was the Kremlin's worst blunder in years, and last week Western diplomats were wondering which of their old acquaintances in the Soviet Foreign Ministry had been shot as a result. If any did go to the basement at Lubianka prison, they were unjustly punished. The inscrutable American is a hard man to guess, as Wilhelm and Tojo and Hitler found out. The Kremlin knows a lot about the U.S., but even if it had had a spy in the Cabinet of the Joint Chiefs, it could not have predicted the U.S. reaction. Even American observers were amazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Cat in the Kremlin | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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