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Word: tselinograd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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...more than $600 million had been wasted during the last three years on ill-conceived projects; no fewer than 16,139 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Reasons Why | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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