Word: samara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet newsorgans were crammed last week with a new scandal: the crimes committed by small Communist officials in carrying out locally the nationwide purge fathered by Joseph Stalin. Typical was the case of one Pavel P. Postishev, Communist leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...
...Still longer bridges exist, but they are a series of bridges, swung or arched between piers arranged like stepping stones across a river. Longest bridges of this type are the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland, the Samara Bridge over the Volga River...