Mobility in "socialist" eastern europe

[ChrisD(RJ)]

However, when I visited Romania back in 1990, I talked to college students
about the education system and they told me the privileged classes solved
this formal problem by bribing profs for grades.  Since pay for teachers was
so lousy, the system had degenerated into a complete pay-for-grade system
where students were graded essentially on how much their parents could pay.
Like many things, Romania had the most toxic results of deformities of "real
existing socialism."

- -- Nathan Newman
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You just described the contemporary Russian educational system.

Except for students who want to get into low-demand departments like
physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. Isn't capitalism wonderful?

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal