Word: volgograd
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Radio Warsaw disk jockey obviously did not know the score. Thoughtlessly he played a cantata by Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian written in praise of Joseph Stalin. Last week the square deejay lost his job. > In Russia, a soccer match between Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and Tiflis, capital of Stalin's native Georgia, was called off by officials who feared that pro-Stalin Tiflis fans would riot at the sight of Volgograd jerseys...
...legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that the city revert to its pre-Red name of Tsaritsyn. The final, river-inspired decision: Volgograd...