Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander Weissberg, an Austrian physicist, was in charge of the construction of an experimental plant in Kharkov. Every morning when he swept off to work in his chauffeur-driven car he would pass the prison of Kholodnaya Gora and "avert my gaze" from the distressing spectacle of "prisoners clinging to the bars." But one morning in 1937, Weissberg was unable to avert his gaze: he was clinging to the bars himself...
...last month Soviet newspapers continued to print columns of birthday salutations to Stalin. Under the heading "Flow of Greetings," Izvestia recently printed birthday best wishes from the workers of the Kilyazinsk fish cannery, of the Azerbaijan S.S.R., from the physical culture workers of Minsk and from the employees of Kharkov's vinegar factory...
...anything about me," said the Ukrainian. "It isn't safe. But let me tell you something which I heard from a girl who fled last year. In 1948 she lived in Kharkov in the Ukraine. That summer a rumor spread that the Americans had landed on the Black Sea coast and were marching north. So one day there was a big argument in the Kharkov market. A farmer who was about to sell a goat refused rubles in payment. He demanded dollars. Soon thereafter, the arrests came in waves. I suppose the MVD had spread the rumor to provoke...