Word: awl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Milk with an Awl. In a somber, six-hour speech at the Central Committee's annual conference on farm policy, the Soviet Premier castigated "irresponsibility" and "backwardness" in almost every segment of agriculture, even to the high price of harrows in Novosibirsk and the lagging fight against weeds in Kazakhstan. Unless the party makes "tremendous efforts," he warned, "our country will face great difficulties, and serious harm will be inflicted on the cause of building Communism." To get Red farms in the black, he demanded sweeping, immediate reforms that include doubling the output of farm machines, a tenfold boost...
...table groaning with tasty dishes." But, reasoned Nikita Khrushchev, "the preaching of equality in the spirit of the early Christian communes, with their low standard of living, with their asceticism, is alien to scientific Communism. To invite people to such Communism is tantamount to slurping milk with an awl. Communism must not be regarded as a table set with empty plates around which sit high-minded and fully equal peoples." The Greatest Failure. To hasten affluence in Russia, Khrushchev in the past eight years has doubled the number of tractors (to 1,168,000) and ruthlessly cannibalized collective farms...