Word: kharkov
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...have escaped the worst rigors of the war. Only in 1950, when he traveled north to university in Moscow, did he apparently become fully aware of the destruction visited on his homeland. He has said that on that 800-mile train ride, he saw "the ruined Stalingrad, Rostov, Kharkov and Voronezh. And how many such ruined cities there were . . . Everything lay in ruins: hundreds and thousands of cities, towns and villages, factories and mills...
...sings. She dances. She plays the piano, plunks the guitar, pumps the accordion. She recently won raves for two movies, Siberiada and Five Evenings. Now Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, 44, is an author acclaimed for her autobiography, published in a literary monthly, about growing up in war-torn Kharkov. The muse moved her while she and film friends watched Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death...
...their duties with a church that still maintains 11,000 active parishes after six decades of Soviet rule, often marked by systematic persecution. Official Soviet statistics admit two out of five burials are accompanied by a church service, and one out of six babies is baptized. In the Kharkov cathedral there are 120 to 170 baptisms every Sunday. Today the Russian Orthodox Church has 73 bishops, 10,000 priests and, according to U.S.S.R. government estimates, 30 million members who regularly attend services. Some Orthodox priests put baptized membership at 60 million...
...wonderful person. But I think groups that exist, or would like to exist, around Dudko and others are not for the benefit of the church, since our church finds its beauty in unity. The action of the church is not for sensation or effect. In our diocese in Kharkov, all the priests work zealously every day, take care of the people and preach. Thousands of priests work the same way and have no conflicts with the state." When problems arise with the state's watchdog agency, "we have respect for each other, and we always try to find...
...refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk, Vladimir and Kirov, are less plushly fitted out than American makes, but they also are durable and more economical to run. Says Chambers: "We have the Volkswagen philosophy around here. Our tractors may not have all the bells and whistles of the latest models from the U.S., but they...