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...Shmelev complained that "as far as the economy is concerned, we have built a madhouse and continue to live according to the laws of a madhouse." Conservative Deputies warned that society was "slipping into a swamp even more boggy than in the stagnation period." At one point Deputy Teimuraz Avaliani, from a Siberian coal-mining region, even urged the parliamentarians "not to vote for Gorbachev under any circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Nothing Less Than a Coup | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...calls for greater local autonomy in managing the economy, bureaucrats in Moscow continued to wield arbitrary control over the mines and were holding back the bulk of their profits. Many local officials openly sympathized with the strikers. "Why not? They breathe the same air we do," said Timuras Avaliani, 57, of the Kuzbass regional strike committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Revolution Down Below | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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