Word: sovietskaya
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...three-hour daily meeting with the Soviets in Spiridonovka Palace, the Westerners talked over the day's negotiations in the U.S. embassy "tank," a small room safe (hopefully) from ubiquitous hidden Soviet listening devices. During one informal evening that he spent chatting with U.S. correspondents at the Sovietskaya Hotel, Harriman suddenly looked up at the ceiling and said, "Mr. Khrushchev, if you hear what I am saying...
Another wave of turbulence in the Siberian industrial center of Kemerovo was reported last week by the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya. More than 47,000 construction workers walked off the job during the first six months of the year because of low wages, poor housing and food shortages. Economic planning in the region was a joke. Equipment for a steel mill delivered in 1954 was still waiting to be installed. A fruit cannery was finished before it dawned on its builders that there was no local fruit to can. All in all, $660 million went down the drain...
...studied intervals, the Soviet newspapers fish up specimens of private enterprise and exhibit them to the public as prehistoric monsters-and horrible examples. A reporter from Sovietskaya Rossia recently discovered that the island of Sporny was full of farmers who had fled collectivization. Located in the middle of a river and source of a squabble about which province should control it, Sporny had spawned farmers who had fenced off their properties-sin of sins. Farmer Zakhar Vasilenko was so capitalist that he owned four cows, 150 sheep, had an outrageous annual private income of $7,500. Moaned Sovietskaya Rossia...
Behind Fences. Recently, the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossia accused three Moscow housing-administration officials of unlawfully putting up their own dachas on reserved grounds, and complained that "at a time when our country is striding confidently toward Communism, it is strange to see such castlelike dachas rising behind heavy fences." Khrushchev lives in a dacha of Czarist proportions, but for others he favors "setting up hotels and boarding houses for workers in the loveliest places around Moscow." Sovietskaya Rossia went further, demanded a ban on any new dacha building within a 30-mile radius of the Kremlin to "assure healthy rest...
...Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest was sentenced to three years in jail. The people of Magnitogorsk, said Sovietskaya Rossiya, were highly satisfied...