Word: slava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snow melted as it fell and clouds lowered on Moscow's greatest anniversary celebration of the Red Revolution. Across the Moskva River an electric sign half a block long gleamed: SLAVA VELIKOMU STALINU ("Glory to the great Stalin"). Pravda said: "Thousands of [Stalin's] portraits swam over the columns of the demonstrators and his name, pronounced by millions of lips, went soaring above the harmony of the songs, above the powerful, continuous thunderclap of hurrahs...
...SLAVA BOHU, THE STORY OF THE DUKHOBORS-J. F. C. Wright-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Russian religious sect best known for their tendency to shuck off their clothes and parade naked through startled towns on the Canadian prairies. Less readily do Dukhobors shed the cloak of secrecy and deception in which they have hidden their affairs from a world they fervently mistrust. In Slava Bohu, Canadian Journalist J. F. C. Wright strips them down for good...