Word: thuringians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets now have about 100 major operational missile bases in a crescent extending from the White Sea down to the Baltic Coast to former Koenigsberg, and on into the Southern Ukraine and the Carpathians, with some forward launching sites in the Thuringian forest of East Germany...
...When Thuringian workers were being egged on to revolt against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must...
...enemy has installed himself in Saxony and in the Thuringian salient, 150 kilometers from the Rhine. This salient is, in the heart of Germany and toward the heart of France, a ... loaded pistol...
Your July 21 "Sisu" was superbly done. I have read few articles that have presented with such excellency the spirit of the Finnish people and the obstacles they have had to surmount because they live under the shadow of the historical Russian bully . . . What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu...
Last week, Friedenau got his best chance yet to nail Red lies when the East German Communists imprisoned seven Thuringian bank officials after a trial at Erfurt on trumped-up charges of "sabotage." Friedenau knew all about...