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...prominence of an editorial. After it appeared, orders were issued, supposedly by Yegor Ligachev, then the party's leading ideologue, that the letter should be studied by military units and other party cadres. Significantly, publication took place the day Gorbachev departed on a visit to Yugoslavia. After his return, Pravda counterattacked, labeling the letter "an attempt to reverse party policy...
...would lose their economic privileges." Not only might they be shifted to less desirable jobs, but the nomenklatura fears that reform may also eliminate the perks -- special stores, food sources, even schools -- that make them the Soviet Union's pampered elite. Those privileges are a touchy matter. When Pravda published a letter from a reader complaining about nomenklatura perks, Ligachev chided the paper for admitting that the privileges even existed...
...week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had 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...
Soviet leaders openly disagree about how much freedom should be tolerated, let alone encouraged, in Eastern Europe. Conservative Politburo member Viktor Chebrikov, former head of the KGB, last month berated "antisocial elements" for attempting to "direct the masses toward anarchy." Pravda responded contrarily, suggesting that the ruling party might have to consider even "formal agreements" with independent groups. At the same time, the Kremlin has put down in the Baltic republics the kind of political muscle flexing it has tolerated farther south...
Yegor K. Ligachev, reputedly a conservative force on the Politburo, got the most "no" votes of any Politburo member, 78, according to Pravda...