Word: polese
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At the end of World War II, Joseph Stalin demanded a large chunk of Polish and German territory for the Soviet Union. In compensation to the Poles, Germany was forced to give up the province of Silesia to Poland, which immediately began deporting Germans and rooting out German influence.
Yezhov started to deny saying any such thing. Stalin then called Georgi Malenkov, who was at that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied...
It seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have...
But prices cannot stabilize as long as there are too many rubles chasing too few consumer goods. The Shatalin plan calls for absorbing excess rubles from the Soviet economy by selling back state-owned assets to the public. In addition, Gorbachev last week raised the idea of devaluing the official...
Big frog, small pond; an even smaller pond today, with fewer than 400 residents. I look around for the train station, but it's not there. No tracks, either; they were ripped up "Oh, quite a few years ago now." A big prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and...