Word: prornyshleniki
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...history, which is a monument to the rugged philosophy that "if you're going to be raped, relax" The first white explorer to see the place was Vitus Bering, a Dane sailing in the service of Czar Peter the Great. His 1741 voyage was soon followed by Peter's prornyshleniki (explorer-colonizers), who swept eastward through the gale-tormented Aleutian Islands with the rapacity of conquistadors. Though Peter yearned for an empire, his colonizers found only humble Aleuts and thick-furred sea otters. By 1801, the Aleuts had been decimated by harsh servitude and the animals virtually wiped...
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