Word: chenko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities, they learned only two weeks before the meeting that fodder shortages last fall had forced farmers to slaughter 29 million hogs-more than 40% of Russia's entire swine herd-as well as record numbers of cattle...
...promised rally in Red Square, but Moscow University permitted the marchers publicly to condemn Russian (as well as U.S.) resumption of nuclear testing; Russian students were permitted to rebut with the Soviet view on the matter. It was a grand diversion, and when University Prorector Grigory Vov-chenko tried to end it after two hours, the Russian students howled him down...
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