Word: cheliabinsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal experience, still vividly remembered, may throw some light on the difficulty of obtaining objective information when conversing with Russians through an official Soviet interpreter. I visited the Cheliabinsk tractor factory as a journalist in 1932. Finding that some of the workers were under prison sentence, I asked several what their offenses had been. A peasant said he had been condemned as a counter-revolutionary because he complained at a collective farm meeting that there was not enough to eat. A worker said he had accidentally damaged a machine, and was promptly condemned to forced labor for "sabotage...
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