Word: taiga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khrushchev accused him of "intolerance, brutality and abuse of power." In 1962, Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's statues, as numerous as trees in the Siberian taiga, were hewed down, and the city of Stalingrad became Volgograd...