Word: stalinogorsk
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Further deglorification would present awkward problems: whether to remove Stalin's body from its conspicuous place beside Lenin's in Red Square, whether to rename Stalingrad, Stalino, Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinir and Stalinabad. It was a measure of the Kremlin's cynical knowledge of Stalin's unpopularity (and their own) that within three years after the death of the man whose wisdom, genius and love they had sycophantly proclaimed from every loudspeaker, they could carelessly traduce his name without fear of rioting in the streets from the masses who were said to love...
Meanwhile, self-criticism progressed in other fields. In Bolshevik a revealing article showed the statistical deceptions practiced by harassed managers to meet the stiff goals of the new Five-Year Plan. The Stalinogorsk Coal Trust had "never fulfilled its plan." But its figures for the last three days of July were inflated to make up the month's quota. A mine that never produced more than 150 tons of coal a day suddenly reported a 544-ton output...
Stalinski, just north of Moscow, and Stalinogorsk, to the south (important now because it supplies more than half of Moscow's electric power), were both in the paths of the German pincers on the Capital. Stalino, capital of the Donets region in the eastern Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near...
Pleased with this simile, "Papa" Kalinin rambled on, drew deafening cheers with an announcement that when Russia's largest "chemical city" is shortly completed he will rename the place Stalinogorsk-this making the 15th Soviet city to be named after Stalin, not to mention mountain peaks and islands...
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