Word: suvorov
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...several small autonomous regions. As the Red army rolled back the Wehrmacht, Serov followed behind, liquidating "collaborationists." He deported to Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily (who disappeared in 1953), trailed...
...rink. Performing this duty "with a warm heart in a cold climate," The Beaver was proudly armed with a certificate, presented by Fredericton's mayor, giving him the freedom of the city. Whimsically, Lord Beaverbrook recalled a similar rite: "Some years ago I was given the Order of Suvorov, First Class, in Russia, and I said then . . . does it mean that I have many liberties in Moscow? I was told yes. If you get tight, the policemen are told to take you home rather than to prison. But, I said, I don't get tight. What then? They...
...they had Ike properly squared away but when he moved he pulled his ribbons out of kilter. Ike's decorations in order were: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Bath, the French Legion of Honor, and a Russian decoration, the Order of Suvorov (which entitles the wearer to free rides on the Moscow subway). For ceremonially loaded chests of Ike and Zhukov...
...propaganda line switched: the old Marxist slogans were dropped, the emphasis was on national patriotism. "Let the manly images of our great ancestors-Alexander Nevsky, Dimitri Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov-inspire you!" exhorted Stalin. At this point the cruel, cumbersome five-year industrialization plans paid off. During the long winter of 1941-42, guns, tanks and planes came rolling out of the Ural factories, to be supplemented later by a stream of armaments from the U.S. and Britain. To a U.S. visitor who explained that strikes were holding up U.S. war production, Stalin snapped...
...usually wears only three ribbons on his jacket (Army & Navy, D.S.M.s and the Legion of Merit), holds 43 foreign decorations, e.g., Britain's Order of Merit (limited to 24 living holders), France's Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Russia's topflight Order of Suvorov, Poland's Cross of Grunwald, Tunisia's Grand Cordon of Nishan Iftikar. Last week France awarded him the Médaille Militaire, the highest French military decoration...