Word: gazenfranz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to agents of the K.G.B. (Committee for State Security, or secret police), the textile operation had flourished since 1955, when Comrades Gazenfranz and Appelbaum arrived in Frunze, capital of Soviet Central Asia's Kirghiz Republic, with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill. Instead of producing sweaters, they suggested, why not overcome the drastic shortage of curtain lace, a commodity highly prized both as a status symbol and as the only way to secure privacy in a land without window shades or blinds. The trio promptly set to work importing machinery and bribing...
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