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torgsin|ˈtɔːgsɪn|
Also Torgsin.
[a. Russ., contraction of vsesoyuznoe ob{pp}edinenie po torgovle s inostrantsami, the All-Union Association for Trade with Foreigners.]
A Soviet trading organization in the 1920s and 1930s which sold goods only in return for foreign currency. Used attrib.
1933Sun (Baltimore) 24 Nov. 18/5 Sale of 200,000 pounds of bacon to the ‘torgsin’ stores, which cater only to foreigners in Soviet Russia, has been announced by Polish exporters. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 819 All over Moscow and Leningrad you can bribe with foreign currency because of the absurd Torgsin system. 1968Listener 3 Oct. 434/2 It was fairly easy for us because of those Torgsin shops where you could really get everything. |