Word: minsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxers "could not appear, in view of unforeseen circumstances." Then the Red embassy in Rome announced that it knew of no change in plans. Next, on the day before the championships, the Polish team informed officials that the Russians were on the way at last by air from Minsk. But when weighing-in time came, there were no Russians in sight. They were scratched from the lists, and the bouts went on without them (and without the satellite Rumanians, who claimed last-minute visa trouble...
Right through 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...