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...with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills, clothing and shoe factories, is one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest cities. More primitive and inaccessible are the other three republics, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia and Turkmenistan...
Breaking off into an Upper House and Lower House, the Deputies (all of them nominated by the Communist Party and elected unopposed) then began to debate the Bulganin pension plan. A comrade from hot Turkmenistan argued that people in hot climates ought to retire earlier and get pensions sooner (laughter), but a comrade from the chilly Ural Mountains countered that the hardy cold-weather Russians deserved even better from the republic. Several delegates observed that they did not like Bulganin's plan for 15% lower pensions for country dwellers (on the theory that countryfolk had little gardens and presumably...
...Central Asiatic Spartakiad-a tournament, including soccer, among five Central Asiatic Soviet Socialist Republics -was in full swing. The Alma Ata soccer team (representing the Kazakh Republic) was playing the Ashkhabad eleven (representing Turkmenistan). Alma Ata was ahead in the game, but what counts in the Spartakiad is not the number of games won; it is the number of goals scored. In goals, the Tashkent team (representing Uzbekistan), which did not play that day, had a narrow lead. The game between Alma Ata and Ashkhabad reached a point where, if either of the teams scored two more goals, Tashkent would...
Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...
...Chung-ying. There were other reasons for the Soviet fear. White Russian troops, remnants of the legions of Annekov Dutov, still operated in Sinkiang. The general unrest on the Chinese side of the border might be swiftly communicated to the unstable Moslem millions in Soviet Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Turkmenistan. These were unspoken Russian calculations...