Word: zlatoust
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...minor civil-service employe, Marshal Shaposhnikov was born in the town of Zlatoust in the Urals, in 1910 was top man at the Moscow Imperial Academy. By 1917 he had become a Tsarist colonel. The next year he joined the Red Army and became a prime strategist of the war on the Whites. He has been an active Commander of the Leningrad, Moscow and Volga military districts, Chief of Staff, head of the Frunze Military Academy (Soviet West Point), and he joined Comrade Stalin at the signing of the Russo-German Pact (see cut). But his reputation has always been...
...pale nervous Briton with a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard and a twisted hip hobbled forward to the witness stand. Again the clerk's voice droned on-carrying on military espionage under orders from his colleague, W. H. Thornton. . . . Helping wreck a power plant at the Zlatoust munitions factory. . . . Bribing Soviet citizens. ... At the end came the question, "Do you admit these charges...
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