kolkhoz
Example Sentences
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Many had fallen into a slowly degrading limbo: The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022
Iatgyrgin was sixteen years old in 1940, when his family entered the Polar Star kolkhoz, in Beryozovo.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
Where herders were convinced to merge their reindeer, kolkhoz herds were so small and supplies so short that the collectives never got off the ground.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We can build a log house like the kolkhoz office, with a chimney and a stove. We can all live together.”
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
