Word: sverdlovsk
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Pavel and his little brother Fedor were the sons of Trophim Morosov, easy-going chairman of a remote village Soviet in Sverdlovsk Province in the Ural Mountains. So far as Moscow knew, Comrade Morosov was busy organizing collective farms, but Pavel and Fedor knew differently. When a State grain collector came to their village Pavel, that model child, peached on his father, denounced him as secretly in league with Kulaks, charged him with obstructing collectivization and screamed: ''I demand that father be severely punished...