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With Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, tension grows along Ukraine's northern border
After the war, Fedir and Maria lived on a kolkhoz, or Soviet collective farm.—Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023 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.—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022 Even lower was the number of herders interested in joining an artel or a kolkhoz.—Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
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Etymology
Russian, from kollektivnoe khozyaĭstvo collective farm
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