Word: medintziv
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...Moscow, 25 plant executives of the five-factory Leather Combine were awaiting trial, charged with diverting tons of their inventories. Most sensational was the confession of N. Medintziv, supervisor of Sporting Equipment Factory No. 2, that he had turned his back, for thousands of rubles a month in payoffs, while the chief of his cutting-floor section routed consignments of leather to distant Georgia (via the state railway). There it was secretly fashioned into fancy high-heeled shoes, which were smuggled back to Moscow -and snapped up by the Soviet capital's increasingly style-conscious women...
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