RUSSIA: Soup Sabotage

Moscow had a villain last week and his name was Oshkin Mikkhail. He was 20 times worse than a murderer. In fact a charge that he and an accomplice had once murdered a young Communist went almost unnoticed. To thousands of workers who go reluctantly for their meals to the Moscow Restaurant Trust the issue was: who has been putting hair into their cabbage soup, leaving bits of metal in their meat balls, giving them sugar with sand in it ? The State said that Oshkin was the man. With a whoop...

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