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Word: wjarasmutkin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sergius Wjarasmutkin was managing, last week, a small factory in his village in distant Vladimir Province, Russia. On the second floor of the factory was the only hall in the neighborhood, a room about 24 feet square, with tiny windows and one door, used as a storeroom for tools and gasoline and cotton waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bazarnov's Butt | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Sergius Wjarasmutkin, Tuesday is a national holiday. To celebrate it your factory has been chosen as the place in which to show a film sent to us from Moscow. It is called Wind, and it is half educational and half propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bazarnov's Butt | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov, singed, fled for his life. A pitiful few escaped through a trapdoor to the floor below, but 120 were burnt alive. Wild-eyed peasants, unable to save their friends, rushed to the home of Sergius Wjarasmutkin. It was his factory, he must be to blame. Wjarasmutkin was beaten, stoned. At last the bleeding factory manager was thrown screaming into the blazing ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bazarnov's Butt | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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