Word: vilna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fashioned Man. Dr. Lascoff was born in Vilna, Poland (then Russia) in 1867 and got his education there. He came to the U.S. in 1892. In the Prince Albert coat and high silk hat that European chemists wore in those days, he began compounding prescriptions for Manhattan's Hayes & Son at $2 a week. He was raised to $10 before the week...
...Archbishop of Kaunas, Roman Catholic Primate of Lithuania, was severely wounded and a priest accompanying him killed by "accidental" Nazi gunfire when he went to Vilna to substitute for its Archbishop, whom the Nazis had jailed...
Churches were closed in Kaunas and Vilna, markets suspended throughout Lithuania. Tass, Soviet News Agency, claimed a captured German medical report said that "100% of our soldiers (in one battalion) are more or less covered with lice" - not an incredible statement to men who remember World...
...Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...
...luck struck early. On the very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...