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This pitted, tortured soil was Russia's proudest. At Ropsha Peter the Great built a magnificent palace. At Krasnoye Selo Alexander Suvorov, the 18th century hero, trained his men and shouted: "Battles are not won in offices." At Peterhof the Czars kept their priceless works of art. Now the palaces and treasures had been wrecked, looted. But Russian soil was back in Russian hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: End of Siege | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...proudest boasts cocky Maraudermen now toss around is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Respectable Floozie | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Sharing the humiliation of his Jewish subjects, he would wear the Badge of Shame among his proudest decorations. ... I nominate . . . Christian X of Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...decision to make. To stay in London was a terrible temptation-life was easier there, success greater. To live in Russia had been an even stronger temptation: "I felt I might have functioned there better than any place else in the world." But, a proud man Robeson is almost proudest of being a Negro; a responsible man, he feels most responsible toward his race. "I couldn't live with my own conscience, feeling I was getting the gravy." He stands with his people, but against segregation and abnegation alike. But he came back, too, because he found, like many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Alexander Yakovlev cut his teeth on trainers before turning to fighters. His proudest brain child is the YAK, a cannon-armed, partly plywood, 400-mile-an-hour plane, which has consistently outfought the Messerschmitt. Practical Vice Commissar Yakovlev is manager of a huge aircraft plant, a major general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: YAK, LAGS, Stormovik | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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