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...unveiling the 1965 Soviet budget last month, Premier Aleksei Kosygin-himself a savvy economist-announced that by the end of the year one-third of Russia's consumer-goods factories were to switch to the Liberman system. Then, three weeks ago, Moscow disclosed an "area" trial of Libermanism in Lvov where, significantly, not only the town's consumer industries but also its heavy industries, including a coal mine, were to go on a supply-and-demand basis...
Hand-Holding. The situation was of course not new at all. But some of the personalities were. Moscow's new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin would hardly be prepared at this early date to make major decisions on so basic an element of Soviet foreign policy as the German question. It was, after all, the fear of some new Khrushchev initiative toward Bonn that spurred his adversaries in the Kremlin to throw...
...leaders also intend to follow Khrushchev by continuing the move toward a more market-oriented economy, letting consumer demand rather than a bureaucrat's plan dictate product design and quantity. By next year, Kosygin reported, one-third of all consumer-goods plants will make the changeover. Some day the Russians may even be able to afford to be consumers: Kosygin got his loudest applause when he unveiled a round of wage increases for next month...
More Mistakes. The debate following Kosygin's presentation was astonishingly frank. One delegate, to the manifest surprise of the leadership, even mentioned Khrushchev by name, accusing him of the mistake of not facing facts but "presenting the desired as reality" -otherwise known as wishful thinking. He then had the audacity to accuse Kosygin's budget of perpetuating some of the same "upsetting mistakes." Georgy Popov, Leningrad party boss, went even further and came flat out against the new regime's plan to return the control of heavy industry to Moscow direction from the local authority where Khrushchev...
...this free speech was unprecedented in Supreme Soviet debates, and Kosygin himself seemed carried away, admitting that some of the criticism was valid. "Mistakes are made," he confessed, adding with masterful and no doubt unintentional understatement: "The structure of the apparatus is sometimes cumbersome...