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Russian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Almash Dzhorobaeva Kyrgyzstan Local time: 19:38 | ||||||
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3 | in-kind deliveries |
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3 | food apportionment |
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1 +1 | natural products toll |
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natural products toll Explanation: If you have 2 cows - 1,5 cow goes to the Red Army, the rest is yours. |
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in-kind deliveries Explanation: //// |
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food apportionment Explanation: Something like: "People, demoralized by growing food apportionment..." Or you can leave "Prodrazverstka", if you like... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 hrs (2012-01-18 08:32:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- .. translated as food apportionment or surplus appropriation system, was a governmental program in Russia which obliged peasantry to surrender the surpluses ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 hrs (2012-01-18 08:35:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The authority was forced to refuse food apportionment not only because of peasant revolution but also because of the aspiration to carry out a sowing campaign. ... http://www.gramota.net/materials/3/2009/2/10.html Soviet authorities introduced “prodrazvyorstka” – food apportionment, the state defined the volumes of products that peasants had to give to the state. By 1922 it ... http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/leaders/vladimi... |
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Reference: FYI Reference information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_communism -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 mins (2012-01-17 16:37:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Check this one as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka |
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