kolkhoz
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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
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
There were other new incentives for joining a kolkhoz: its store often provided the only source for tea, sugar, and tobacco in the area.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
"Seventeen years after the war we are still fighting on the farm for every pound of bread," exclaims Anany Egorovich Mysovsky, chairman of the fictional New Life kolkhoz in Abramov's tale, entitled Round and About.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were on a kolkhoz, a collective farm, and I was to become a beet farmer.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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