Word: pavlodar
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...regional officials were fired last year alone, 2,340 of them for stealing and embezzling $1,270,000. A gang of crooks led by the chief of the Tselinograd Trade Board faked reports, rigged phony prices, and sold meat, butter and automobiles on the black market; in Pavlodar, three men managed to make off with no fewer than 300,000 bottles of wine and vodka. The entire party and government leadership of the Kzyl Orda region masterminded a ring of cattle rustlers: the local Communist chief organized blackjack games and set off an "epidemic of gambling...
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