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
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
On the Omvaam River, a Chukchi man named Tymnenentyn was one of the first to join the Amgeuma kolkhoz.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities.
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
