--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any modern economy operating on the basis of the exchange of labor is going to manifest economic inequality. What Russia junked was socialism. The people of the Soviet Union understood that Brezhnev was not a Red. I remember their jokes from this period . . . concerning Brezhnev trying to impress his mother with his power and wealth and privileges.
At the end of the story . . . Brezhnev's mother looks at him and says . . . "you have done well son . . . but what you gonna do when the Reds come back?" --- Everybody in the USSR knew about his fleet of cars, his big boat, and the stuff with women and alcohol. Andropov distributed videotapes of Brezhnev engaging in compromising behavior as part of his anti-Brezhnev campaign -- unfortunately for him, not many Soviets had VCRs! That said, the Brezhnev-era USSR was a reasonably OK place to live for most of the population, if you weren't unlucky enough to get stuck in a communal apartment with bad neighbors. It was the apex of the Soviet way of life. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
