Word: sotsialisticheskaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relief effort as bungled and inept. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, said that because of a lack of cranes "seconds and hours are being lost -- that means lives." It complained that for each Soviet searcher "we have about ten observers who give advice rather than clear up the rubble." Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya asked, "Why does it happen that many families are still living out in the open though there is an abundance of tents?" Some of the homeless spend their nights huddled over bonfires. Even a Communist Party commission report lashed out at the poor organization, noting that "in a number...
...protest, all from the Karabakh Committee, had been jailed. The Armenian distrust has become so explosive that the Soviet army positioned tanks at main intersections in Yerevan. Pravda blamed the Karabakh group for spreading a rumor that the disaster was the result of a nuclear explosion detonated by Moscow. Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya reported that a convoy carrying aid from Azerbaijan to the earthquake area had been attacked and turned back by gangs of Armenian youths...
...people huddled around bonfires, and roads out of the city clogged with fleeing residents. As workers tried to clear away fallen masonry, "you could hear the terrible cries of people waiting for help," wrote a reporter for Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper. In devastated Spitak, a correspondent for Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya said, rescue workers heard a small girl trapped under a pile of rubble cry for her mother and ask for water. They lowered a pipe for her to drink through, but were unable to free...
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