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Word: unmown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...homes and fields in the recaptured regions east of Rzhev. On their backs they carried children too weak to walk or hold up their heads. A soldier, giving bread to a weeping, toothless, grey-haired woman, asked: "What's wrong, Babushka [Grandmother]?" The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle. The few remaining houses were stripped of logs and furniture. German soldiers had taken the wheels off baby buggies and used the prams for easy chairs; they had put their own pictures in Russian picture frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babushka & Ballerinas | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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