Word: tsaritsyn
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Stalingrad, a great sprawl of a city on the Volga, became the focal point of the struggle. It had originally been named Tsaritsyn, and during the bloody civil war it was successfully defended against the rightist White Army by Stalin himself, who gave it his name. The Russians knew that if they did not tie down the Germans at Stalingrad, the war would virtually be lost. Not only would the huge cities of the north be bereft of supplies from the fertile south, but the oil fields of Baku that fueled the Russian war machine would fall to the Wehrmacht...
...away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that the city revert to its pre-Red name of Tsaritsyn. The final, river-inspired decision: Volgograd...
...justice must be served, whatever the expense, let it be served properly. The original name, Tsaritsyn, will not yet do. The current favorite, Volograd (after the Volga River), is a bit dull, although it does. To be truly fitting the new name of the city should rehabilitate a genuine folk hero to take Stalin's place...
...Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them. Wounded at Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where Voroshilov was in command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became a member of the Communist Party. He never regretted...
...Marriage. Trotsky skyrocketed into world prominence as organizer and Commissar of the Red army in the civil war. Stalin, in charge of the defense of Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad), kept up a running feud with Trotsky and carried the war, against orders, into his native Georgia. In these violent days, he was married a second time, to Nadezhda Allilueva. the pretty daughter of the Petrograd worker in whose house he had once been arrested...