Word: thermopylaean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure party employee in those days, [Khrushchev] was probably never allowed to know that Stalin did not even acknowledge Mr. Churchill's repeated warnings of the impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today, he would be the last man to heed the thought that the allies' Thermopylaean resistance in the Balkans, which forced an infuriated Hitler to postpone invading Russia for over a month, quite possibly saved Moscow. Excuses may be made for childish ignorance and even for narrow racialist arrogance. But there is no excusing a cold, venomous lie. Whatever the motive, Mr. Khrushchev has deliberately chosen...
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