Word: squalid
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Lavish Homage. Perhaps the only Spot in the Soviet Union where Stalin's anniversary was marked with joy was his birthplace, the squalid little Georgian town of Gori. There, obdurate Georgians, proud of a native son's fame (or infamy), paid him lavish homage. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud found policemen posted along all the roads to Gori on December 21, stopping all but residents of the town to prevent Georgian jubilation from becoming an unseemly public spectacle...