Word: voronezh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love That Line! Such was the eye-popping pace of Menshikov's diplomacy that almost nobody had time to find out what Smiling Mike was made of. He was born in the village of Posevkino in the Voronezh district of Russia in 1902, graduated from Moscow's Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in 1929, hobnobbed up through the Kremlin bureaucracy to become an aide to Foreign Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan. As UNRRA representative in Poland (1945), Menshikov used U.N. prestige to help dignify Communism's grip, angered idealistic U.N. staffers by twisting U.N. ideals to Kremlin ends...
...regions as self-sufficient as possible, so that if one is knocked out in a war, the others can fight on. But Russia's regions are still heavily dependent on each other, which means on transport. For example, nearly all Russia's synthetic rubber is made at Voronezh, four-fifths of her trucks and cars are made at Gorky and Moscow, each more than 300 miles away...