Word: polotsk
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...Papal Nuncio Achille Ratti. He and U. S. Minister Hugh Gibson were among the few foreign diplomats who remained in Warsaw when in 1920 the Bolsheviks advanced upon the city. Warsaw did not fall, but as the Russians retreated they pillaged the countryside, snatched from a shrine in Polotsk the venerated body of Andre Bobola...