Word: kostiuk
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Police grabbed Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...
...foreign clothes, foreign dances and foreign names," which led to the further deviation of listening to rock 'n' roll and the Voice of America. From such evil habits it was only a step further to hard drinking and absenteeism. Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted with horror a passage from Kostiuk's diary: "I don't understand how one can find any satisfaction in work. Study is also useless." In retrospect, the newspaper blamed the plant collective for failing to apply "corrective measures" in time, and the mothers for narrowing their sons' trousers for them...
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