Word: tuvinians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generalissimo Stalin, 50,000 Tuvinians indited a note of thanks for allowing them to withdraw from the capitalist world and enter the Soviet Union. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the country's former independence. Tannu Tuva (pop. 65,000) is a Mongolian farming, mining and cattle raising area about the size of Nevada, between Siberia and Outer Mongolia. Its assumption to Russia was a fact unknown to the rest of the world until it read the names of Tuvinian delegates on the election lists to the Supreme Soviet last October...
What Western romanticists called an "unspoiled refuge from civilization," inhabited by indolent drinkers of reindeer's milk, was swiftly taken in hand by the first Bolshevik missionaries in 1921. The Tuvinians had no written language. The Bolsheviks gave them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like...
Mother Russia acquired another child. In the Soviet Union's ample and complex federal bosom,* the newcomer is known as the Tuvinian Autonomous Region. Hitherto it has been called Tannu Tuva, nominally an independent people's republic tucked between Outer Mongolia and Siberia...
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