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...other hand, Yuri Maltsev, a former economic advisor to Gorbachev and now a fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, estimates that at least 40 percent of the Soviet economy operates in the informal sector...
...Boris Yeltsin recognizes this essential fact of capitalism, his country will begin the real move to a market so desperately needed by the Russian people. Maltsev recommends that Russia simply legalize the black market, making it the white market. If Yeltsin fails to smash such bureaucracies as the OBKhSS and legalize the black market, he will condemn his people to decades more of poverty and discontent...
...second period saw the Soviets regain the lead on a power-play breakaway goal by Aleksandr Maltsev, but they could go no further. The Americans, though behind, never panicked and stuck to their scrappy style. They played their game, and--charged with the chants of "USA! USA!"--it sufficed...
...immediate U.S. response. Neither verbal outrage nor diplomatic pressure would suffice. Indeed, when before Christmas Soviet forces were detected massing for a possible Afghanistan invasion, Ambassador Watson delivered several warnings to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. They were ignored until Christmas Eve, when Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Maltsev coolly informed Watson that the invasion was about to begin. Said a senior U.S. planner: "There wasn't anything we could have said at that point that would have deflected them...
...Soviet envoy, Ambassador Viktor Maltsev, totally rejected a series of "confidence-building" measures, including one that would permit Communist observers at NATO military maneuvers and Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...