Word: fomenko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion was a letter to the editor from an obscure party functionary in the Ukrainian city of Chernigov. Complained Comrade Fomenko: "Millions of Soviet citizens who have never in their lives owned private property are now suddenly being slandered as property owners because they own their own homes...
...Comrade Fomenko is right," thundered the editor's reply. "It is high time to stop this nonsense." Though Fomenko had been referring to the large and growing number of Russians who are buying cooperative apartments and building their own homes with government credits, Izvestia's reply presumably extended to the owners of all sorts of worldly possessions...