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Workers
take tea and warm themselves between firings of open-hearth furnaces at
the Novokuznetzk KMK steel plant, one of the oldest in Siberia.
Victim of a tragic broken promise, the once-treasured "New Soviet Man"
now finds his very survival threatened: his life expectancy has fallen
to 61 years (1994), lower even than that in the developing nations. |