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Word: bloodbath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made up its mind about the purges. It may be that, as Moscow said, traitors to the U.S.S.R. dominated the Red Army, that the first battles of the war with Hitler were won by Stalin's firing squads. At any rate, the Red Army which emerged from the bloodbath must win or lose the last ones. So far, it has lost all but the ones which counted most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Peasant and His Land | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...answer is: No, it will not have been enough. If England goes down, there will, of course, be nothing but British graves to reproach me. But if she doesn't go down and rises, staggered and decimated, from out her bomb-craters and bloodbath, then there will be English men and women and children to face me. Shall I be able to face them? Again the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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