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...Soviet Justice caught up last week with eleven phonograph record speculators, the suddenly notorious "SPECTOR AND MYZNIKOV AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES," as Moscow called them. Spector & Myznikov, well knowing that the State Music Stores have nothing like enough phonograph records to supply the wants of Moscow's phonograph addicts, neglected to stay away from those stores as the State desires patriots to do in order that some records may always be "offered for sale" and appearances kept...
When daring Spector & Myznikov went so far as to enter the stores singly and have relatives and friends do the same and insist on buying records, alert Stalin Secret Police were soon on the miscreants' trail. They were accused in court last week of reselling their phonograph records privately to more timid Moscow music lovers who make their purchases in the safety of dark alleys rather than in the State Music Stores. The court sentenced Spector & Myznikov to seven years each in jail, gave their accomplice's from six to five years each...
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