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...Soviet leaders are cynical and believe in a type of 'Socialist goulash' where workers are encouraged to seek satisfaction from their cars and homes and to remain out of politics," Pelikan said...
...Cracow, Poland: "There's always something to worry about-the black market, the secret police, talking too freely. I'd love to see my parents' faces when they got my postcard and realize I'm here." But a taste of Eastern Europe's goulash tourism is often prohibitively expensive, and the Soviets have been known to stretch the charge of "disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda" to cover even travel guides...
...visited Paris, London and Munich fashion shows. Before, we always feared competing in the Western market. To our surprise, we tripled our sales westward. We even sell embroidered coats to Japan." A consumer magazine, Nagyitó ("Magnifying Glass"), has appeared, examining such products as refrigerators, nylon stockings and canned goulash...
...Palace of Congresses, for example, he said that he intended to keep the armed forces "fully provided with all that is needed for the vital task of national defense." If Brezhnev feels under any obligation to the military, however, his position could become uncomfortable. As the chief exponent of "goulash Communism," Khrushchev frequently sought to divert money and materials into consumer industries, away from the military men and what he called "the metal eaters"?the managers of heavy industry. But while Khrushchev tried, often unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged...
...bring Khrushchev alive, but it raises questions about all the unknowns in his life: what was his childhood like; was he really a sadistic Stalinist during the old days as a commissar of the Moscow subway; did his war experiences turn him away from Stalin; did he become a "goulash Communist" only after the showdown in Cuba; why did he permit Brezhnev and Kosygin to ease him out? This book fails to answer those questions, but only Nikita can do the job-and he is unlikely to write his memoirs...