In 1961, N. S. Khrushchev tightens penalties for economic crimes up to the death penalty. During this period, the number of death sentences in the USSR tripled compared to the previous year. One of the most high-profile processes of the time is the knitwear business.
Sewing tandem
Siegfried Gazenfranz was a simple assistant to the master at the Almedin knitting factory in the city of Frunze. A modest appearance, a small official salary - all this does not fit in with the modern idea of ​​millionaires. However, in the country of councils, such indicators served as a kind of protection for wealthy people. In fact, Siegfried was the owner of a well-maintained apartment and cottage. His wife flaunted in expensive jewelry, and all the housework of the Gazenfranz couple was done by a servant.
Probably many dreamed of a rich life in the USSR. Siegfried Gazenfranz went further than a million of his fellow citizens. In 1957, he decided to implement a daring, risky and very dangerous plan - to open an underground third shift at his factory. His main employee in the pursuit of millions was Isaac Singer - the master of one of the industrial cooperatives of the republic.
New styles for sewing millions
Savvy entrepreneurs placed machines in abandoned garages, warehouses and workshops of knitwear factories. They bought the decommissioned equipment, and then gave him a second life.
For sewing products, unrealized raw materials were used, as well as materials made from tows - industrial waste from spinning mills. Quite often, they went on to create semi-woolen clothing labeled as natural wool.
During the night shifts, unaccounted products were produced, which were sold in different cities of Central Asia. Unlike legal samples of light industry, it was convenient, original and attractive. Scarves, suits, dresses and blouses with unusual styles for a Soviet person were extremely popular and were literally in great demand.
A year later, after the opening of the illegal enterprise, Siegfried and Isaac decided to realize another idea - to do sewing tulle. The machines began to scribble delicate scarce fabric, and the pockets of the allies replenished with banknotes. At this time, monthly income from successful businessmen reach four hundred thousand rubles. Incredible money at that time.
Pay
Any attempts of private enterprise under Khrushchev were punished mercilessly. This fate did not bypass Siegfried Ghazenfrantsa and Isaac Singer. Even the support of those in charge, the Council of Ministers, the Kyrgyz State Glavsnab, the Ministry of Local Economy and other state bodies, representatives of which clandestine businessmen paid solid kickbacks, did not save them from reprisal.
In addition to Zigfirid and Isaac, about twenty other guild workers were executed. Moreover, Bekjan Dyushaliev, the chairman of the State Planning Commission of the Kyrgyz SSR, the head of the Main Directorate of Logistics at the State Planning Commission of the Kyrgyz SSR, was also shot.
