Word: zagranitza
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...ordinary people should learn, through Pravda or any of its emulators, anything complicated about life elsewhere. The New York Times's correspondent, G. E. R. Gedye, found, in 1940, that Russians were really unable to differentiate between the regions of the outside world. For many Russians the word Zagranitza (beyond the frontier) had an astronomical connotation of outer space, largely populated by slave workers and silk-hatted capitalists that no simple Russian could hope to understand...
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