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...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is not just a country, but an empire?the largest, and probably the last, in history...
Though Soviet officials are aware of the booming second economy, they generally ignore the dealings of Ivan the Terrible Capitalist. Major violators are sometimes arrested, and officers of the MVD'S Administration for Combatting the Embezzlement of Socialist Property and Speculation have infiltrated the black markets. But the Kremlin grudgingly accepts the underground economy because it fills the gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried...
Within 40 minutes the battle was over. Eighteen paintings had been mutilated and burned; four painters were under arrest. The infectious spores of bourgeois formalism, carried by Jews and other rootless cosmopolitans, had been sanitized; the integrity of the official style of Socialist Realism stood vindicated...
...they do not set the paper's policy. Beuve-Méry, sometimes referred to by staffers as "God," ran a taut one-man editorial operation for 25 years before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian Khmer Rouge. In response to increasing criticism from readers and public officials, Fauvet has in the past few years gently nudged Le Monde...
Next González executed an equally deft pass of the cape. As millions of Spaniards waited at their ra dios, González soberly proceeded to lay out his party's program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, Gonz...