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Word: deicer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other items in short supply for civilians are smuggled off base to nearby villages and sold or bartered for liquor. Soviet soldiers are as adept as their counterparts elsewhere in the world at concocting an alcoholic brew from such unusual sources as after-shave lotion, brake fluid, plane deicer and even shoe polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S.S.R.: Moscow's Military Machine | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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