I tamped down the urge to describe impoverished collective-farm workers in Siberia picking slugs off cabbage to supplement their insufficient protein intake. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)
Of course not, for they are sworn enemies of the collective-farm movement .... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yeltsin had set out to break the Soviet powers that be -- collective-farm directors, factory bosses and party apparatchiks -- with a program of radical economic reform. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The new government, which includes only one radical reformer, is packed with Soviet-style bosses: a former factory director, a collective-farm director, a central-bank chief who believes in state subsidies for industry. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A former prison guard and collective-farm boss, Mr. Lukashenko has ruled Belarus like a fiefdom, controlling the press, repressing the opposition and running a Soviet-style command economy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ivan Yakushin, a collective-farm chairman, said many farmers bartered their crops directly with factories this year instead of selling to the state. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Though closely allied with and heavily dependent on Moscow, Mr. Lukashenko, a former collective-farm boss who has kept a tight grip on Belarus since he was elected president 14 years ago, has resisted the Kremlin's embrace. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Blocked from advancing along the communist career path, the 59-year-old Malinauskas -- former wrestling champion, collective-farm worker and present-day produce tycoon (known locally as the Mushroom King) -- is getting vicarious revenge. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Vasily Melnichenko, an energetic small businessman in the village of Galkinskoye in the Urals region, recognizes it as the same feeling that weighed him down as a collective-farm director in the waning days of the Soviet Union. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"He's not scared of anyone," Vitaly says of the former Soviet collective-farm boss. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Privatisation of land ownership started in 1992, allocating two - to five-hectare units to former collective-farm workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lukashenka, a former collective-farm boss, became president. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After he wrote a series of articles about alleged abuses in local tax inspections and collective-farm management, authorities in the eastern city of Namagan charged Namazov -- editor of the state newspaper Pop Tongi and correspondent for the state newspaper ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because of Stalin's remark that he was tired of gunfire, they put on, not a war film, but a shallow, happy collective-farm movie. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That's nice to know, the thought will keep me warm as I trudge off to my enforced voluntary job in the collective-farm rice paddies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Though closely allied with and heavily dependent on Moscow, Mr. Lukashenka, a former collective-farm boss who has kept a tight grip on Belarus since he was elected president 14 years ago, has resisted the Kremlin's embrace. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Considering that the libs would like nothing better than to see all of us wearing identical North Korean-style quilted suits and trudging off in unison to work the collective-farm paddies, this anger of theirs towards someone who resembles Palin is quite extraordinary. ❋ Unknown (2008)
