Word: magnitogorsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They're Off! Suddenly, in the midst of it, he fired his gun. The seven Russians stared blankly as the French girls scooted down the track. Then the Russians caught on. Their faces set in stern concentration, their legs pumping like pistons in a Magnitogorsk factory, they charged down the track, past the limp bunting on the grandstand, past the mudstreaked posters advertising the virtues of L'Humanite and the Communist Party...
...Europe's vantage point for watching the development of Soviet policy. Scott has an extensive acquaintance among Russians in Berlin. Few Americans know the U.S.S.R. as well as Scott; he worked in the Soviet Union for five years as a welder and chemist in the steel mills at Magnitogorsk, for four years as a newsman in Moscow (he was expelled for reporting too well). He married a Russian, speaks German and Russian fluently. He is the author of three books about the U.S.S.R.: Behind the Urals, Duel for Europe and Europe in Revolution...
...that international inspection and control were necessary. But Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had insisted on holding a veto against the day-to-day activities of the inspectors (TIME, Dec. 9). This seemed more political than practical. If a couple of U.N. inspectors were headed one morning for, say, Magnitogorsk, and Russia vetoed the trip, the action would indicate guilt almost as clearly as if a violation had been detected. The U.S. proposed that the Security Council be instructed to draw up treaties outlawing not only atomic weapons but guided missiles, poison gas and disease warfare. Any nation could exercise...
Scott is used to rugged going. (Perhaps you remember that he spent five years working in the Russian steel mills at Magnitogorsk.) And the food...
Inevitably, they saw Magnitogorsk, biggest and best known of the new steel cities (TIME, Jan. 17). They found it crowded with evacuees from ravaged western Russia (some are going back home now). The life is rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed...