Word: stalinogorsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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