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Coal miners in Siberia and the far north left their pits. Resolutions condemning the Emergency Committee were passed in communities from Sakhalin Island in the far east to Petrozavodsk, near the border with Finland. In Leningrad tens of thousands gathered in front of the Winter Palace, which Lenin's forces had stormed to begin the Bolshevik Revolution...
Yeltsin has skillfully blended government business and stump campaigning on his tour. In Murmansk, Petrozavodsk and Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin signed agreements between the Russian government and the local authorities that allowed the regions much greater control over their economies and foreign trade. In his standard stump speech, he has promised that local factories and other enterprises will be able to trade freely with foreign companies and will have to hand over to the Russian government only 25% of their profits. Mikhail Gorbachev's power-sharing program, which is still in the planning stage, will call for factories to give...
...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
describe their Government as a crocodile trying to look like a nice old man. "The vipers who are crawling on their bellies before Hitler, saying they wish to defend Finland as far east as Petrozavodsk [capital of the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic] may find the Red Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad...
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