Word: dnepropetrovsk
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Plyushch, 37, who still considers himself a "neo-Marxist," was remanded to the Dnepropetrovsk special mental hospital in July 1973 after prison doctors had diagnosed him as a schizophrenic. Once there, he recalled last week: "The horror of the psukhushka [madhouse] got to me. There were more patients than beds, and in two beds shoved together I was put in the middle place of three. Patients twisted in pain from administration of drugs. One of them had his tongue hanging out, another his eyes popping, a third walked curved in an unnatural manner...
Mentally Sick. These more or less ordinary terrors, however, were less frightening to him than the attempts by doctors at Dnepropetrovsk to convince him that he was mentally sick. "You had to admit to the doctors that you were ill. In the beginning, I argued. Then I came to the conclusion that they were right." Plyushch's cause was taken up by Amnesty International, a London-based organization that seeks to dramatize the plight of political prisoners. The Communist parties of France, Italy and Britain demanded his release. Presumably, it was in response to pressure from European Communists that...
Podgorny: "I should like to confirm that with examples. In the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Stalino districts, they even cut green corn that could have been picked." Khrushchev: "That's impermissible. Why, it's simply criminal...
...London last week a Soviet trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...
Violinist Kogan, 33, started tangling with technical difficulties as a seven-year-old prodigy in Dnepropetrovsk, was soon tagged as a good cultural investment, entered the Moscow Conservatory to study under Abram Yampolsky. In 1951 he burst spectacularly on the international musical scene by winning Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against the best young talent of the West. Now married to Elizabeth Gilels, younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week...