Word: samara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...late, also, the Russian peasant, ingenious in his discontent, has discovered yet another way of annoying the Government. Of 9,000 peasant houses destroyed by fire in one (Samara) province last year, 3,000 were due to arson. Fire insurance paid out totaled four million rubles ($2,000,000). The peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes...
...week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow a revolt of the peasantry...
...placed in a compartment with two soldiers on guard. On the road he fell sick. At Samara they took him from the train in a serious condition and doctors were summoned. That is all we know. That is really how it happened...