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What the Soviet Union needs right now, theysay, is a some tvordy poryadok--some firm,Stalinist discipline...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Eyeing the New Russia | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

That was what no visitor to the Games could get used to-what the Soviets call poryadok, the discipline of law-and-order. No graffiti. The hiss of the spray gun is not heard in the land. And the military! During the Games, it was almost as if a vast box of soldiery had been tipped up and its contents deposited over the city. Often one saw them in odd places-militiamen standing in a clump of shrubbery or on the side of a hill, as if wherever they had landed they were obliged to stand up and assume their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Frisbee over Moscow | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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