Word: novocherkassk
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Within weeks of last June's Kremlin decree boosting the prices of meat and butter as much as 30%, a remarkable rumor filtered through the Iron Curtain: several hundred young Russian students and workers had been killed by police in the booming southern industrial city of Novocherkassk, near Rostov, in a wild night of rioting and pillaging touched off by the unexpected price increase...
From Baku to Britain. Out of the bloody civil war and the famine years that followed. Borodin emerged as a young "Red technician." a microbiologist trained in Novocherkassk in the Cauca sus. During the first Red famine, he had inadvertently eaten meat which turned out to be the fried flesh of murdered chil dren. He had lectured in a church changed into a "Club of Godless Science" and learned that freedom is merely "perceived necessity." He was soon attracted to the secret police "as an interesting state institution." After the Chekists honored him with the title of "scientific consultant...