Word: dnieprostroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...