Красный Крест

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Кра́сный Крест (Krásnyj Krestm inan (genitive Кра́сного Креста́, uncountable)

  1. Red Cross
    • 1904, Леонид Андреев , “Отрывок седьмой”, in Красный смех; English translation from Alexandra Linden, transl., The Red Laugh, London: T. Fisher, 1905:
      … это бы́ло безбо́жно, э́то бы́ло беззако́нно. Кра́сный Крест уважа́ется всем ми́ром, как святы́ня, и они́ ви́дели, что э́то идёт по́езд не с солда́тами, а с безвре́дными ра́неными, и они́ должны́ бы́ли предупреди́ть о зало́женной ми́не. Несча́стные лю́ди, они́ уже́ гре́зили о до́ме…
      … eto býlo bezbóžno, éto býlo bezzakónno. Krásnyj Krest uvažájetsja vsem mírom, kak svjatýnja, i oní vídeli, što éto idjót pójezd ne s soldátami, a s bezvrédnymi ránenymi, i oní dolžný býli predupredítʹ o zalóžennoj míne. Nesčástnyje ljúdi, oní užé grézili o dóme…
      . . . It was godless and unlawful. The Red Cross is respected by the whole world, as a thing sacred, and they saw that it was a train full of harmless wounded and not soldiers, and they ought to have warned us of the mine. The poor fellows, they were dreaming of home. . . .

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