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Word: olkhovatka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...latest case is the "Olkhovatka Hermes." Olkhovatka is a remote rural region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Its Hermes is one Comrade Vakhlin, the "unrelenting" prosecutor of a local committee engaged in snooping into irregularities on collective farms. He was nicknamed for the mythological Hermes, who, according to the Soviet press, once stole a sheep, saying to the owner as he made off: "Don't do as I do, do as I tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Poison in Jest | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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