Word: tovarishchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humbler Moscow folks had a party too last week. The first seven miles of the first subway in Russia opened for business with three days of free rides for the Tovarishchi who helped build it. Driven through quicksand and swampy ground in two years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what...
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