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Word: simferopol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free democratic election, they were nonetheless quite a big enough dose for Russian minds and Russian methods to cope with. Getting ballots and pencils to the places where they were needed was a big job and there were occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Foreign News, Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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