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...plot of The Government Inspector is deceptively simple. The mayor of a small Russian town-his name, Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Satirical Slavs | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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