Word: postoyev
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Spitting. It was then Vishinsky's turn to get up and talk. Famed as the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow treason trials (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936), Vishinsky was badly handicapped last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
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