Word: mirotvortsev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because it called for a higher growth rate in consumer goods than in heavy industry for the first time in Soviet history, the reporter was anxious to find out what it meant. "Will the shelves be bursting with goods?" asked the newsman. The commission's deputy chairman, Nikolai Mirotvortsev, began rattling off a long list of items that would be available by 1975, though they have been in short supply in the past. In a highly unusual display of independence, the reporter interrupted. "In the past," he reminded the official, "people frequently had no clothes or shoes...
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