Word: roisoleil
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Searching for the best phrase with which to hail Joseph Stalin, Soviet editors not long ago began calling him "Our Sun." This caught on in the Soviet Union from coast to coast. Like Louis XIV of France, Le RoiSoleil ("The Sun King"), Dictator Stalin is the actual Sun around which Communist constellations revolve, might say truly if he liked "L'etat c'est moi." One day last week Sun Stalin stood refulgent atop the Red Square tomb of Lenin and more than 1,750,000 Soviet citizens marched past him carrying flags and banners. Meanwhile, Madrid had devoted...
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