Pravda Reports Protests of Pollution in Volgograd
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
Residents of the Soviet industrial city of Volgograd have held demonstrations and petitioned the authorities to clean up chemical pollution, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said Monday.
Pravda said that emissions of phenol, formaldehyde, chloric acid and other chemicals had affected the health of newborns in the city, formerly called Stalingrad, and that factories were not being equipped with air filters quickly enough.
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