And over the Bolshoi itself a huge loudspeaker kept making announcements.
Anti-fowl vaccinations at Lefortovo Veterinary Institute have produced brilliant results.
The number of... fowl deaths for today has dropped by half..." Then the loudspeaker changed its tone, something growled inside it, a spray of green blazed up over the theatre, then went out and the loudspeaker complained in a deep bass: "An extraordinary commission has been set up to fight the fowl plague consisting of the People's Commissar of Health, the People's Commissar of Agriculture, the head of animal husbandry, Comrade Ptakha-Porosyuk, Professors Persikov and Portugalov... and Comrade Rabinovich! New attempts at intervention," the loudspeaker giggled and cried, like a jackal, "in connection with the fowl plague!" Theatre Passage, Neglinnaya and Lubyanka blazed with white and violet neon strips and flickering lights amid wailing sirens and clouds of dust.
People crowded round the large notices on the walls, lit by glaring red reflectors.
All consumption of chickens and chicken eggs is strictly forbidden on pain of severe punishment.
Any attempt by private traders to sell them in markets is punishable by law with confiscation of all property.
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