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Only one month after Italy's Fiat agreed to help the Russians build a 600,000-cars-a-year Fiat plant, Renault announced it will help the Russians expand their Moskvich plant near Moscow from a current production of 80,000 or 90,000 cars a year to around 360,000 cars by 1970. Under a pact that is likely to be signed when De Gaulle visits Moscow later this month, the Russians will pay an estimated """ million to $100 million for Renault's equipment and know-how-on longterm, low-interest credit...
Labor unrest also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What...
...thrown open in Montreal's new air terminal for a press conference. The Russian mission had brochure-fat briefcases and an expansive statement from Heavy Machinery Salesman Anatoly Prokhorov that "we are interested in selling anything in Canada." When Prokhorov cited Moscow's export line of Moskvich and Volga autos, added that he would like to set up a Canadian assembly plant, mayors and businessmen in half a dozen Ontario and Quebec towns rushed to announce that they had just the site. To get the trade going, Prokhorov set his sights on 500 Russian-built cars...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...
...Soviet bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that...