Word: kuldja
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...persuasion but on the People's Liberation Army to lead Sinkiang through what the party called its "difficult period of rehabilitation." In that difficult period, landowners were dispossessed and shot, tight food rationing imposed and 12,000 "incorrigibles" shunted into six big forced-labor camps near Kuldja, Nilki and Kunes...
When Peking proclaimed its Great Leap Forward (TIME cover, Dec. 1, 1958), Sinkiang, normally a pastoral land, was marked out for a big coal and steel center at Kuldja. While grain rotted in the fields and neglected herds died, farmers were dragooned into factories, construction sites and 451 communes...
...Urumchi is full of bloody touches (like the nice flat place where the Moslems slaughtered 40,000 Chinese in cold blood) and we spent about a week there being entertained royally and well. Then we got another plane across the Tien Shan Mountains to Kuldja in the Hi Valley in a regular land of milk and honey, where we gorged ourselves on chicken and beef and white rolls and fruit...
...camera and bought a couple of tickets to Alma Ata. From there they started off on foot, across 200 miles of Central Asian mountain peaks and desert, toward China. Ten days later they staggered across the Chinese border, were fed by Chinese officers and sent on to Kuldja, in Sinkiang Province. There they celebrated the first anniversary of their escape from capitalist America...
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