Moldavians Angered by Officials’ Perks
Two luxurious hunting lodges built with public money for a former Communist leader of Soviet Moldavia are being used by government ministers despite public complaints, an official newspaper said Thursday.
Socialist Industry said the Moldavian press has received many complaints that the multimillion-dollar lodges, built in the 1970s for Ivan Bodyul, were inaccessible to the general public and were being used by vacationing officials and their families.
Bodyul was removed from office two months after Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev took office in March, 1985.
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