Word: vassili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dratvin retreated, refused to discuss the matter further. Dratvin's Vkhod Vospreshchyon (Entry Forbidden) was enough to keep U.S. and British investigators out of the Russian zone. Clay's proposal was kicked upstairs to the Control Council, where last week Russia's newly appointed, bemedaled Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky echoed his subordinate's Vkhod Vospreshchyon...
Drug Tito, De Luce found, "has welded his guerrillas into a tightly disciplined and hotly idealistic force that shows more enthusiastic determination than any outfit I've seen since I met Major General Vassili Novikov's Caucasus Army. . . . It's a people's army, and presumably susceptible to most of the mistakes . . . ex-civilians usually make. But its spirit is amazing and exhilarating. It knows how to shoot straight...
...Army headquarters was moved five times. At one stage the Russian position seemed so hopeless that Lieut. General Vassili Chuikov, who commanded the Sixty-Second Army under Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, ordered his chief of staff to cross to the east bank of the Volga. His chief refused and said: "We will win or die together...
Testified Vassili Ivanovich Vikhorov: "My father, my mother, my sister, my daughter, aunt and uncle all died of hunger. ... I ate dead horsemeat. I chewed the raw leg of a horse I found in a field. It made me ill. Sometimes I ate the bark of trees. The Nazis did not give us anything...
...enough, Sir Archibald was in Iran, nearly 3,000 miles by air from the Dorset downs. He had stopped on the way for urgent discussion with General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, commanding in the Middle East. In Teheran he talked with the Russian commander in Iran, Major General Vassili Novikox. A British mission flew to Tiflis in the Caucasus for further discussions. The implication of these scurryings was obvious...