Word: vorobiev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Mensheviks and Bolsheviks struggle for ascendancy, Professor Polezhayev (Nikolai Cherkassov) does not attempt to hide his sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...
...falling short of their sparrow quota. Good fellows, the circuit court officials joined with enthusiasm in the sparrow hunt. Fearing, however, that the district Soviet authorities at Yelan might be harder-hearted, the peasants, shrewd, sent a very pretty girl, Comrade Emelianova, to intercede with the district boss, Comrade Vorobiev...
...Comrade Vorobiev was furious. "Dunderheads!" he roared, while a ripple of laughter began in his office that was to spread over all Russia, "Fools! The telegram I relayed to your village was an order ending with the usual slogan 'Keep Ready.' I added the serial number, 13,530, signed my name Vorobiev [sparrows...
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