Word: chernigov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours, to purchase such "luxuries" as soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies and smashed the car to bits, then towed its carcass to the local party headquarters...
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