Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiery Colchian. Beria, king of the cops, was born March 29, 1899, at Merkheuli, a village in Stalin's own Georgia. His family were poor peasants. He attended the polytechnic school at Baku and joined the Bolshevik Party before he received his degree in draftsmanship and engineering...
...greater, concern to the Soviet General Staff, however, is their belief that the Americans have found a means of denaturing gasoline or rendering it useless by atomic bombing when the oilfields are located near the sea-which is the case with most Soviet oilfields, particularly those around Baku. If the Baku deposits were rendered useless by A-bombing of the sea nearby, there could be no three-dimensional warfare, for this, of course, involves tremendous consumption of gasoline...
...major digs are now in progress. In Russian Azerbaijan, close to the Persian border, the Soviet Government is building a hydroelectric dam. Red Army tanks, doubling as bulldozers, uncovered relics which looked so interesting that experts from Baku took over...
...first protocol was amended to give Russia specifically "the area south of Baku and Batum in the direction of the Persian Gulf...
...Baku brought nothing for Brazil. If import-hungry Latins had hoped that the U.S.S.R. could help them sooner than the U.S. or Britain, with possibly a captured German factory or two, the Soviets had failed them sadly. In the first five months of 1946 Russia had sent only $93.58 worth of goods to Argentina, since then only one cargo of Polish coal. Uruguayans who had signed a trade treaty with the Soviets earlier this month were still looking for Russian goods...