Word: wrangel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most famous was probably Marshal Vasily Bluecher, a Civil War hero who fought the White Cossacks and White General Wrangel's forces (1920). later drove the Japanese out of the Maritime Province and captured Vladivostok. Chiang Kai-shek drafted Bluecher as military adviser to China, where he helped organize the famed Whampoa Academy. Shortly thereafter Chiang broke with the Communists and took over Whampoa; Bluecher became Russia's top general in the Far East. "If war bursts like thunder in the Far East," he once said, "we will answer the attack with such a blow that the foundations...
...Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them. Wounded at Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where Voroshilov was in command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became...
Some Japanese newspapers jumped to the conclusion that the Soviet tests were held on Wrangel Island, off the north coast of Siberia, where the Russians have a meteorological station. Dr. Miyake is not as definite. All during the tests, he says, the Russian station kept sending its normal weather bulletins...