Word: pobedas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limousine, the Volga, has been built at the Molotov Gorky Motor Works . . . The new car has an unusually broad windshield and a number of gadgets including a clock on the dashboard, a radio and a heater. Everything is well designed and of excellent workmanship . . . far surpasses the Pobeda in elegance of lines and finish and is much roomier. For long-distance travel the middle seat can be lowered to form...
...ordinary people were friendly and kind, the government and its representatives were as consistently chilly and hostile. Wherever he went, Stevens was followed, either blatantly by blue-capped MVD men in small, black Pobeda automobiles or by the ubiquitous "slim, competent, peaches-and-cream young lady from Intourist," the official Soviet travel agency. Writes Stevens: "I don't know why it is so annoying to be followed like that, but it is. There is a sort of depression that settles over...