Pinsk
Americannoun
noun
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In December 1943, German forces dropped leaflets around Soviet partisans in the Pinsk marshes bordering Belarus and Ukraine, urging “partisan Ivan” to return to his family and farm.
From Slate • May 3, 2022
After crossing into Belarus near the southwestern city of Pinsk last August, Mr. Neumann, 49, formally applied for asylum, according to state media.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022
Viasna said the searches Monday targeted civil society activists and human rights defenders in the cities of Brest and Pinsk in western Belarus.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021
Mrs. Schulman worked for a period as a photographer in Pinsk, in what is now Belarus, before the couple decided to seek entry into what was then the British mandate of Palestine.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2021
"Plagues of rates have appeared at Pinsk, and in the British trenches."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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