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Word: voroshilovsk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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There was another present, even more splendid, for which Russia's popular man of war did not have to wait. On his birthday the city of Lugansk, where he was born, became Voroshilovsk. Throughout the Soviet Union several hundred organizations and buildings were also named last week after Comrade Voroshilov. The entire populace, taught, by the Soviet press that a "Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man Of War | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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