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Word: saratov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cabbage he was trying to take to his village. Police seized 150 Ibs. of his haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky, a major industrial center, while travelers said that in cities as widely scattered as Saratov, Yaroslavl and Kharkov, cereals had been virtually unobtainable for weeks. Northerners from the Barents Sea port of Archangel complained that their rationed potatoes were "not much bigger than peas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Short Supplies | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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