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...only do supposedly respectable people cheat on their taxes-federal, state and local-but supposedly respectable institutions help them do it. "Take someone who has just bought $1,000 worth of clothing," says Connecticut Revenue Commissioner Orest Dubno. "The store can ship a necktie somewhere out of state, so it can show a UPS address and receipt, and the buyer avoids the state sales tax. Actions such as these contribute to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...
...doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...
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