Word: dachas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Muscovites could scarcely fail to notice that Brezhnev's highly conspicuous black ZIL limousine was no longer speeding down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt around 10:15 every morning, taking the leader from his suburban dacha to his Kremlin office. Significantly, TASS reported that a visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled...
...last month, the Soviet-trained general pleaded for "90 days of calm" and then consistently worked for accommodation with the unions. "There is trust in him and his uniform," Walesa told the strikers last week. "Jaruzelski is a good man," said a Warsaw taxi driver. "No known girlfriends. No dacha. No money stashed away. Not like others who are not as equal as they pretend...
...they are. Though Salyut 6 may be smaller and more primitive than Skylab, which tumbled back to earth last year, the samovar-shaped space station has performed impressively. Launched three years ago, it weighs 20 tons, has as much room as a small dacha (the amenities: a shower, 20 view ports, sleeping facilities for four), and has been occupied for 578 days, a little more than half its time aloft. The Soviets, using their new breed of Progress spacecraft-small, automated single-shot ferry ships-have repeatedly refueled and re-equipped Salyut, with a total overhaul of its inventory...
...most Westerners, the word dacha conjures up images of lovely forest cottages or posh state guesthouses by the sea, where top Soviet officials spend their leisure hours. Such places do indeed exist, but the majority of Soviets vacation at dachas that are little more than primitive cottages. City dwellers love the countryside and consider summer holidays essential for recovering from the long winter and girding for the next one. Anyone who can afford to do so rents a dacha-or even just a room in a dacha-for a month or so, no matter what the inconvenience. "When I want...