Soviet Train Lost in Paper Blizzard
Soviet efforts to find a missing freight train produced a lot of bureaucratic buck-passing but not the 28 cars, the Soviet newspaper Pravda complained Sunday.
“A train consisting of 28 freight cars with crushed rock left the Tomashgorodsky factory on June 24, 1983,” Pravda said. “It left, but it didn’t arrive.”
Eventually the problem of the missing train ended up at the central office of the Soviet Rail Ministry in Moscow.
“The staff of this section finally concluded that it was impossible to do anything, since all the documents concerning shipments were kept for only one year and then destroyed,” Pravda said.
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