Word: serf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jove Is Serene. Youthful Hero Arkady Dolgoruky (who tells the story) is the abandoned bastard son of an aristocratic father and a serf girl. Arkady is ambitious to make himself "not simply rich, but as rich as Rothschild." Once he has become a multimillionaire, Arkady reckons, he will be able to afford the two things he most craves: a life apart from the contemptible world, and a sublime sense of power. "With the thunderbolts in his hands," Arkady poetically muses, "Jove is serene...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...zeal caught the eye of Nazi leaders. Gregor Strasser, then an important Hitler lieutenant, called Himmler to Munich to serve as his secretary. Kurt Ludecke, in I Knew Hitler, quotes Strasser: "[Himmler] sees in every creature who doesn't 'think' Nazi a Jew or a Jew serf, a Jesuit or a Free-Mason. He's very ambitious, but I won't take him along-he's no world beater." Nine years later, Himmler had Strasser shot...
Italy. "The boastful Mussolini has crumpled already. He is now but a lackey and a serf, the merest utensil of his master's will...