Word: stalinsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Stalinsk, in the coal-rich Kuzbas, the Russians have built a sizable new steel mill. Farther east there are only two known mills; one, with 200,000 tons' capacity, is at Komsomolsk (north of Vladivostok), supplying naval construction and ordnance for the Far East. Since Siberia lacks iron ore, this plant must get its iron from western Russia. The other is a tiny mill somewhere in the Transbaikal...
...U.S.S.R. Russia's resources, especially iron ore and coal, are wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that about 1947, Stalin & Co. hardheadedly concluded that U.S. bombers could strike behind...