Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...
...closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin (see RUSSIA)-keynoted significantly thus: "Here in Russia we know the true meaning of the word comrade. Among the Fascisti it means every man for himself." Copied from Pravda and reprinted by hundreds of provincial papers was a ribald, satanic poem by Comrade Vladimir Myakofski, entitled Cross and Champagne. Based on the undisputed facts that General Nobile dropped upon the North Polar region a large cross blessed by the Pope and carried a supply of champagne in which to toast this event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne...
...Kerensky quotes a Latvian citizen, M. Vladimir Brunowsky, who has deposed that on May 10, 1923, in Moscow, he was approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...
Having happened to read in TIME, April 9, that my father, Vladimir de Pachmann the pianist, is a Jew, and that assertion being quite inexact, I beg you to rectify that error as soon as possible (if possible in the next issue of your magazine...
Ossip Gabrilowitsch Vladimir De Pachmann