Word: kazakhstan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also reported sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...
...festivities rarely prevented the Justice from asking pointed questions and getting evasive answers. Quoting official Soviet figures, he asked if forced collectivization had not resulted in the disappearance of nearly 1,000,000 of the Kazakh people of Kazakhstan between 1926 and 1939. Replied a local judge blandly: "'One million of Kazakhs must have gone to China...
...have not helped significantly. In some areas of Siberia farmers are reported deserting the collectives to set up independent farms, or to join roving work gangs, where they probably eat better. To curb this kind of deviation, Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Kruglov last month took a swing through Kazakhstan, one of the principal collective farm areas, with a posse of MVD police...
More significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
Said Khrushchev last week: "It is said that there is little rain there. Many will have to go to completely open country where no amenities are available. In many regions there is no timber [but] Kazakhstan is very rich in reed plants. This is very good material for the construction of houses." For the fainthearted, Khrushchev had a word of warning: "We will see you off with honor, but we won't welcome you back with joy. You must settle there firmly, once and forever. For this purpose it is desirable that you should marry there...