Brest Litovsk

[ brest li-tawfsk; Russian bryest lyi-tawfsk ]

noun

1. former name (until 1921) of Brest.

Example Sentences

In the 1918 Treaty of Brest Litovsk, the Germans' price for making peace with the shaky new Bolshevik regime included stripping away Russia's western holdings: Finland, Poland and the Baltic states all regained their independence.

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Begin's father, a leader of the Jewish community in Brest Litovsk, Poland, was said to have been thrown by the Nazis into a river at gunpoint while weighted down with sacks filled with rocks; he died, along with many others from the same community.

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He was born in Brest Litovsk in 1901, the son of a penniless old-clothes dealer named Harry Zonnenberg, who emigrated to New York, scrimped and saved, and brought his family over in 1910.

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"If he spoke Polish, we could speak in Polish," chuckled Begin, who would have had an unfair advantage, having been born in the Polish city of Brest Litovsk.

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During the greatest crises of the revolutionary government, it was always Stalin upon whom Lenin depended for support and counsel Trotsky was his legman at the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, but it is interesting to note two telegrams which Lenin sent in answer to Trotsky's request for instructions.

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