Word: vinogradov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post Office Worker Lydia Gardieva of Moscow sent a note with her blood: "Dear Soldier, I do not know you, but if my blood gives you life and strength to fight the enemy, I will be happy." After a while one Lieut. Colonel Vinogradov replied, with thanks. Then there was a silence so long that Lydia thought he must be dead...
Next morning the happy secret of Sarah and Snatch was out: the U.S. invasion of North Africa. Turkey hoped, through Allied control of the Mediterranean, for a direct route for British-U.S. Lend-Lease supplies. Turkish-Soviet relations improved at once: Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov flew back to Turkey after a cool absence of four months...
...Axis. Turkey was preparing northern defenses. Vital Turkish chromium was being shipped to the United Nations while Hitler paid Turkey in locomotives and rolling stock for the 90,000 tons he hoped to get in 1943.* U.S. Lend-Lease shipments to Turkey were increasing. Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov was expected soon to return to Ankara. The signs were as clear as Inönü's words...