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...markets, I believe that the Soviet Union has to use the services of capitalism -- the system we have made it our goal to defeat (I mean, of course, economically). We ought to be able to give our people more than the capitalist world gives. After all, the Soviet socialist system is the most progressive in the world. Yet even after 50 years, communist parties are still unable to win in parliamentary elections. This is something to think about. People refuse to follow us. We are not yet a mirror into which the West wants to look. We have to create...
...amazed, but I patiently tried to explain the matter to him. "Don't you see, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, that if we form a military organization with some socialist countries but not the G.D.R. and Albania, we'll be sending a signal to our Western foes. We'll be telling them, to put it crudely, 'You are allowed to eat up Albania and the G.D.R.' We'd just be building up the appetite of the Western revanchists...
Readers really devoured Solzhenitsyn's book. They were trying to find how an honest man could end up in such conditions in our socialist time and our socialist state...
...basic goal of Gorbachev's perestroika had been the "restructuring" of centralized socialism; the Shatalin plan aims at the destruction of it, both the centralized aspect and the socialist aspect. Within two years, 70% of the nation's industrial enterprises would be privatized, with stock markets in Moscow and Leningrad trading shares in competitive firms. An even larger proportion -- perhaps 90% -- of businesses in the service and retail trading sectors would be put in private hands. A version of the Shatalin plan circulating in Moscow last week put it bluntly: "Mankind has not succeeded in creating anything more efficient than...
...While a record harvest lies rotting in the fields, bread -- that staple of Russian life -- has joined the growing list of scarce goods. Meanwhile, pressure mounts for the government of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov to resign. Most worrisome of all for the Kremlin, the once monolithic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems ever closer to fragmenting into bits and pieces...