Word: selyugin
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...drove to Uvarovo, the village of my youth that had since turned into a decent-sized city of some 50,000. I discovered that the second secretary of the city party committee was Vladimir Selyugin, an old childhood friend. When I last saw Volodya, he had been working as an agrotechnical engineer. Why had he suddenly turned up on the committee? He told me that he was tired of Uvarovo being run by transients. He had grown up here, worked here and had no intention of going anywhere else...
Second Secretary Vladimir Selyugin was adamant about the environment. "You come down from Moscow to tell us we have an ecological problem," he said with emotion. "Don't you think we know this ourselves? You can go back to Moscow, but we are the ones who live here. Do you think I want my child to breathe polluted...
...factory supplies its workers with food," said Selyugin, "but, all the same, you can see our problem for yourselves." Then he nodded toward the salesgirls wearing mink hats and added, "They're doing all right, though...
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