Word: uralmash
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...image was familiar: Mikhail Gorbachev on another barnstorming journey, surrounded by a sea of citizens. "The point of this trip was to come and see if what we're hearing about your concerns is true," he told workers at the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, in the Soviet Union's industrial heartland. That concern was familiar too: the state of a faltering economy close to collapse and increasingly incapable of delivering goods and services to 287 million citizens...
...industrial ministries, forced to fulfill their five-year plans, have been slow to relinquish their power. Employees at the giant Uralmash machine works in the town of Sverdlovsk won a victory last year when they successfully protested a state plan on grounds that it called for more heavy machinery than customers needed. But after the workers made their point, Moscow bureaucrats simply sent the orders to a more compliant factory. Said a fed-up manager of another plant at last June's Communist Party Conference: "It's hopeless to fight paperwork. You have to kill off the authors...
...Communist tactic, but also mindful of an audience whose sympathy he might win, Nixon gave restrained but unyielding answers, pounding away endlessly at Russia's jamming of U.S. broadcasts and its refusal to give the Russian people a chance to choose freely between conflicting "truths." At Uralmash, the Siberian plant that has made so many machine tools that it is called "the Mother of Factories," Nixon told a heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that...
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