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During our visit to the Michurinsk Food and Vegetable Institute, the future agronomists aired a few gripes and opinions about the Soviet "food problem...
...gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...
Inefficiency is so commonplace in the Soviet Union that we were piqued by tales of a dramatic transformation under way at the Lenin Factory in Michurinsk. The plant, which makes auto parts, had gained national notoriety in 1986 after criminal investigators broke up an organized-crime ring trading in stolen merchandise. Now we heard the Lenin works had been "leased out" to kooperativshchiki...
Lunch at the Michurinsk factory proved to be one of those seemingly commonplace occurrences that actually signifies a great deal about perestroika. We did not eat in a separate executive dining room, or in a side room at a nearby restaurant reserved for the special few, but in a lunch hall where everybody ate together: factory director and lathe operator, shop floor manager and watchman...
Leaving the lunchroom, I understood that the management at the Michurinsk factory could no longer afford to live differently from everyone else. And I understood why: they were leasing the factory. They now had to account for every kopeck...