Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, during the battle, Gurtiev was buried in a cave. Dug out, he moved his headquarters to a huge concrete main beneath the factory ruins. From there he directed the defense-and constant counterattacks. His Siberian division was bled and mauled, but Gurtiev refused to move. Last week Moscow announced that Major General Gurtiev was killed leading his troops in the attack on Orel...
Mother Sonya. Son of an easygoing, Siberian-born government official, "Mitya" Shostakovich might have spent his days playing the piano in a movie house if it had not been for the iron will of his mother, Sonya...
Sonya, the daughter of a middle-class Siberian gold-mine manager, possessed a bourgeois ambition that even the terrors of the October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...
...prewar Russia it was not healthy to be seen talking to foreigners. The doctors of the Cheka-prescribed a Siberian rest cure for comrades who mingled too freely. With Siberia in mind, Moscow maidens are standoffish...
...there were reasons, just as potent, why Russia and Japan should maintain a watchful neutrality. Each has half a million to a million troops posted on the long Siberian-Manchukuoan frontier. The Soviet Far Eastern Army is well equipped, led by rugged General Joseph Rodionovich ("Hercules") Apanasenko. A Red Air Force and a Red submarine fleet are ready...