Word: rakovica
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...most instructive part of the visit came at the Rakovica auto plant out side Belgrade. In a discussion with the workers, Khrushchev seemed fascinated by the Yugoslav factory system of decentralized, locally administered socialism through workers' councils elected by the employees and empowered to fire or reverse the decisions of the plant manager. The system has long been denounced by Red Chinese ideologues, and by Russia since Yugoslavia was kicked out of the Comintern...
...entranced workers at Rakovica responded to all this by handing Khrushchev a present he must have long wanted and needed: a plaster bust of Lenin. Presumably none of Henry Ford was available...
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