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Word: moskviches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Those Moscow Mules | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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