Word: volga
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...vodka was flowing like the Volga at a Moscow garden party last week. Russia's goateed Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, hopped merrily from one cluster of diplomats to another at the celebration of Indonesian Independence
Things Like Culture. The Russians' visit was big news in English newspapers, which dubbed them The Volga Boatmen and gave them more space last week than was allotted to pronouncements of the Foreign Ministry. Interpreter Evgeniy Gippenreuter, a bushy-haired Muscovite, did most of the talking for the delegation and soon tired of one persistent line of questioning. "Food!" he barked at an inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet...
...tractors this year, just about all that Russia can produce), spare parts, and the fuel to run them have been consigned to the virgin lands. Some of the toughest commissars in the party were chosen to oversee the gamble, which is taking place in 16 regions across the Volga, in the Urals, in western Siberia. It is concentrated on the sometimes arid, sometimes frozen steppes of Kazakhstan...
More precious than all these is the "black wealth" of the steppe: the deep, black earth that covers most of the Ukraine and stretches across the Volga into the plain of Siberia. Shorn of its black earth, the Soviet Union would die. It feeds two-thirds of Russia's 210 million people...
...Between 8 and 20 million "forced laborers," most of them at work on the massive "Stalin Projects" (Volga-Don Canal, Kuibyshev power station), and in atom plants in central Siberia. Supervised by GULAG, the industrial arm of the MVD (secret police), a minority of the slaves are political prisoners; many are Crimean Tartars and other minorities, shipped to Siberia en masse...