Ordzhonikidze
Americannoun
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Last week Andropov went to Moscow's Sergo Ordzhonikidze machine-tool factory, where he held a shop-floor version of a town meeting, and bluntly told the employees that "without discipline we cannot advance quickly."
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The centerpiece of the exhibition is, however, the 12-in.-wide gold pectoral dug from a kurgan or burial mound near the town of Ordzhonikidze in 1971.
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After the death sentence was passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents not so much expected as awaited.
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He dashed to Moscow for his first meeting with Lenin and Stalin, then rode triumphantly back into Baku with Ordzhonikidze and Kirov at the head of the Red army.
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When his old hero Ordzhonikidze, hounded by Stalin, committed suicide, Mikoyan raised no protest, later made a sycophant's speech praising the secret police as "the organization closest to the people."
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