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19. Number of spoons in that same orphanage–12.

20. Number of plates in that same orphanage–20.

21. Number of homeless children 1943–45–842,144.

22. Number of those children assigned to labour colonies–52,830.

23. Number of churches in Moscow before the revolution–460.

24. Number of churches in Moscow by 1st January 1933–100.

25. Total number of writers in the Ukraine in 1935–240.

26. Number of writers who “disappeared” from the Ukraine—200.

27. Number of peasants who died during the terror-famine and dekulakization 1930–1933–14.5 million.

28. During the deportation of the kulaks in 1933 total death toll in one district in the Poltava Province–7,113.

29. Of those 7,113 that died, number of children under the age of 18–3,549.

30. Number of Soviet children estimated to have died 1932–34 due to famine and execution–3 to 4 million.

31. Number of minutes a worker needed to be late in order to suffer criminal proceedings–20.

32. Number of people queuing outside one shop in Leningrad for groceries–6000.

33. Average living space in Moscow in 1940 per capita head–4 square metres.

34. In 1938 total distance in kilometres of sewage pipes in Stalingrad–0.

35. Population of Novosibirsk in 1929–150,000.

36. Number of bathhouses for entire population of Novosibirsk–3.

37. In 1937 percentage of all men aged 30–39 married–91.

38. In 1937 percentage of all women aged 30–39 married–82.

39. Amount paid to mothers with seven or more children–2000 rubles a year.

40. Price of a pair of shoes–12 rubles.

41. In Moscow oblast number of families registered with 8 children–2,730.

42. In Moscow oblast number of families registered with 9 or 10 children–1,032.

43. In Shakhovskoi district number of children in one family–15.

44. Age at which a child could be executed–12.