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...have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties for serving over-ample portions of bread - "the holy of holies" as a newspaper called it - which they scoop...
...pump its burgeoning oil and gas production from new fields in the Caucasus and Urals, Russia has undertaken a 38,000-mile pipeline network, with two main legs: one westward from Kuibyshev near the Urals to power the factories of Russia's European satellites, the other thousands of miles through Siberia and on to the Pacific. Trouble is, Russia cannot produce all of the big-bore (up to 40 in.) pipe itself; so it has turned to capitalist manufacturers, mostly in West Germany and Italy, for 40% of the 2,500,000 tons of pipe it needs...
Labor unrest also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What...
...captured their objective and garnered new laurels, as a laconic British communiqué put it, "at the expense of their existence." Gurkhas were the only regiments to break through the Turkish lines at Gallipoli; in 1919 they chased the Bolsheviks from the Persian border and penetrated deep into the Caucasus before they were called off. In World War II, the 200,000 Gurkhas served with greater distinction in Africa. Burma and Italy-notably Monte Cassino-than almost any other Allied outfit...
...columns of political prisoners (among them: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin). During one 75-year period in the 19th century, nearly a million exiles and their families were shipped to Siberia. Another million settlers were drawn from Moscow's subject races: rebellious Ukrainians, Poles, Baits, and dissident mountaineers from the Caucasus...