lbo-talk-digest V1 #7332

[Liza Featherstone]

Yeah, Romania, Hungary. Sorry about that. Anyway Ceaucescu was much, much
more repressive (and demented) than most leaders of the USSR. A
clarification on my earlier point: under his government, you could own a
typewriter, but you had to register it with the police. Nice. I find
numerous references to this law, here are a few links (beloe)

http://www.childhopeuk.org/projects/centralandeasterneurope/romania.htm
http://cnmb.rdsct.ro/romeng.html

Liza


> From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:25:34 +0300
> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: RE: lbo-talk-digest V1 #7332
> 
> Just wondering, is there any country in which women lack this basic right,
> that is not a backward theocracy or an otherwise horrendous dictatorship?
> (In Hungary, I read somewhere once -- sorry not have better sourcing --
> after Ceaucescu fell, two rights were restored: the right to own a
> typewriter, and to have an abortion.)
> ---
> 
> Really? (Though Ceaucescu was Romanian.) You could have a typewriter in the
> USSR.
> 
> 
>