Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SEEDS OF TOMORROW - Mikhail Sholokhov-Knopf...
Hero of the on-time completion of Moscow's new subway was until last week Chief Hard-Soil Excavation Engineer Mikhail Ifremov...
...almost doubled in the past two years. Up to last week the Red Army was officially supposed to number only 562,000 troops and the Red defense budget for 1934 was supposed to carry expenditures of 1,665,000,000 rubles ($1,444,000,000). Abruptly and astoundingly Comrade Mikhail Tukachevsky, Vice Commissar for Defense, announced to the Ail-Union Congress that Russia actually spent 5,000,000,000 rubles ($4,348,000,000) last year for defense and has increased her standing Army to 940,000-by far the largest army in the world...
Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...that Old Bolshevik Mikhail Koltsov, member of Izvestia's Editorial Board, such talk was astounding news. "Not so long ago," he editorialized, "the Communist Party and all Communist organizations persecuted those among Soviet youths who wore clean shirts and neckties, used perfume or face powder, and attended musical shows. . . . Times have changed...