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Word: osman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked if I had overdue taxes. When I showed all receipts I was informed that my grandfather Ahmet owed 4,000 leva on a house I'd sold. I told them this couldn't be so, and that my grandfather's name was not Ahmet but Osman. They answered: 'Then he must have changed his name.' I paid the overdue debt of grandfather's." Another refugee paid 4,200 leva, plus a 6,000-leva bribe for the "military exemption fee" of his four-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Premeditated Disaster | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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