Word: voronezh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development...
...special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled in 1934 to Siberia. In 1934 he was first exiled to eastern European Russia, and then to Voronezh in Central Russia, where he remained until the spring of 1937, and where he wrote some of his most remarkable poetry. It was only after his second arrest that he was sent to Siberia, where he died in Vladivostok, on Dec. 27, 1938. Nor was Osip his father...