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...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...
...engineer and 13,000 Russians mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
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