Word: tadzhikistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blistering editorial, Pravda pointed out that Peking had published a history textbook containing a map that showed China's frontiers as including parts of the Soviet far east-the Maritime Krai, Vladivostok and Sakhalin; a large part of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast; parts of Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan as far west as Lake Balk hash. This reinterpretation of geography would in effect push the Chinese border as much as 300 miles into the Soviet Union (see map). In a fit of Asian self-righteousness, Peking also demanded that Russia return to Japan the Kuril Islands. "To those...
...collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain in the course of harvesting." The party secretary of the Kirgiz Republic admitted that lazy farmers had allowed 20% of the arable land to revert to wilderness. Tadzhikistan's party secretary expressed fear that there would be serious failures in cotton deliveries unless collective farmers responded to his pleas that they revive "the former glory of our master cotton pickers...
Despite his best efforts, Nikita's essential boorishness occasionally broke through: to the proud director of a vast irrigation project in the Camargue, he remarked that Russia had a far vaster project in Tadzhikistan. And the apparent popular enthusiasm that greeted him wherever he turned was largely synthetic...