Word: ural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Soviet forces reoccupying the Ukraine kept to the cities. "But by and by," said the refugee leader, "the NKVD troops got stronger. They burned whole villages and killed thousands of people in reprisal [for U.P.A. attacks]. Three million Ukrainians were shipped to the Ural mines and to the Manchurian border...
...Soviet Russia's hierarchy, the tightest concentration of naked power in the world, a short, fat man from the southern Ural steppes named Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov now stands just a level below the eminences where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov stand. He seems, in fact, to be pressing so hard on Comrade Number 2 that Western diplomats call him "Number...
...said, is to explode large hydrogen bombs on a line extending north & south across Europe. The radioactivity "would be carried eastward by the winds, destroying all life within a strip 1,500 miles wide, extending from Leningrad to Odessa, and 3,000 miles deep, extending from Prague to the Ural Mountains...