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RUSSIA: Burnouts

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TIME

Announced to have died of overwork last year was Heavy Industry Commissar Grigory Ordzhonikidze. Announced to have died of overwork last week was Heavy Industry Vice Commissar Mikhail Ivanovich Tselishchev, 40.

“He burned himself out,” explained the official Moscow press, added that new Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich is “another sufferer from the strain.”

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