Word: volgograd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national channels. You can stay up late; you can get up early. A morning show called 90 Minutes proved so popular that it soon expanded to 120 Minutes. Now collective-farm workers can turn on their sets and get an update on how the harvest is faring in the Volgograd district. For prurient relief, they can watch music videos of East German TV dancers, slinking about in peekaboo sequined costumes...
...more poetic Naberezhniye Chelny (Dugout Canoes on the Riverbank). The Moscow suburb of Brezhnev is once again Cheryomushky Rayon (Cherry Tree District). In Leningrad, Brezhnev Square reverts to the Krasnogvardeiskaya Ploshchad (Red Guards Square). Not since Joseph Stalin's name was wiped from the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and the country's highest mountain (now Peak of Communism) in the late 1950s has a Soviet leader been so posthumously disgraced. No word yet on whether the nuclear-powered icebreaker, the cosmonaut-training center, the military academy, the power station, the tank division and the assorted farms and factories that...
...front after Viet Nam? No, those complaints came last week from the pages of the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda. They apparently were a bid to whip up concern for the sacrifices made by servicemen in the estimated 115,000-member Soviet force occupying Afghanistan. One letter writer from Volgograd wondered why tombstones of Soviet soldiers make no mention of service in Afghanistan. "The war is still going," she wrote, "and we are already trying to blot it from our memories...
Before leaving for Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, the scene of a decisive Soviet victory against the Germans in 1942), Mitterrand said that the U.S.-Soviet dialogue currently appears to be so chilled that it is "closer to the pole than the equator." A senior Western diplomat expressed a similar view: "We are in for a long haul of this Soviet mood. The Soviets have dug themselves in and they are going to have difficulty digging themselves out." -By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Jordan Bonfante with Mitterrand