Word: tikhomirov
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...Russian television, but Dudayev has used his satellite phone often, and one mystery of the war has been that the Russians have never tracked its signal to target him. There was no explanation of how they suddenly managed it. The Russian army commander in the region, General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, gave a completely different explanation. After first denying that there had been any fighting, he then claimed his forces did fire shells at the Chechens in self-defense, and that one of these must have killed Dudayev...
...critical emphasis was on labor. Chemical Industry Boss Sergei Tikhomirov complained of "the stagnation and routine attitude prevalent among some workers." Others complained of the "complacency and smugness of ... workers" and the "great shortcomings in the standardization of labor." Workers were condemned for what apparently is the common practice of lying down on the job in the first half of the month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina...
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