Word: nikitin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defenders on the south fought their way past Balaclava and into the Crimean hills to join the partisans; that the last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian soldiers; that Russian bureaucracy is detached enough to allow Voyetekhov a story at its expense. Another...