Word: vertushka
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...will call Moscow," the factory manager said, glancing at the yellow telephone on his desk. The special vertushka phone network still connects industrial managers across the 11 time zones of the former Soviet Union with the new nomenklatura -- the unofficial network of bureaucrats, former party elites and military officers -- neatly bypassing political leaders in Moscow who might attempt to stand in the way of deals such as this...
Even the top men are constrained by the KGB. The Vertushka, the Kremlin telephone system, is installed, maintained and monitored by the secret police. Their agents serve as bodyguards, chauffeurs, cooks, valets and maids to Politburo members, guaranteeing not only security but surveillance...
...meal in a private dining room, he stays all day, reading those documents that Makarov and others on his personal staff feel it is essential to show him, seeing a carefully screened group of senior ministry officials or top foreign visitors, talking on the special Kremlin telephone system, the Vertushka, to those of his rank outside the ministry...
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