As you admit, I am right for the "vast majority" of the nomenklatura -- 99% of them. As for the handful at the top, the score of Politburo members who mattered, the dozen generals and the few captains of industry who counted, they lived a bit better -- more like senior partners at my firm than like mid-level associates. They did not live like the big bourgeoisie, who have wealth that is apparently beyong your imaginings.
Fond regards, jks
Barkley Rosser <rosserjb at jmu.edu> wrote:
I don't think you know what you are talking about. I do (sorry to be pompous about it).
You are right for the vast majority of nomenklatura, especially for those in the provinces. For those really at the top, it was a very different matter. You are forgiven for not knowing because what they did and how they did it simply has never been publicly disclosed, certainly not fully. Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: andie nachgeborenen To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust
The Soviet nomenklatura lived like the American upper middle classes -- sort of like me, equivalent of a nice house in the burbs or an OK apt in the city, a dacha in the country, a couple cars, a housekeeper (I don't have the dacha or the housekeeper myself, but I suppose I could afford them in principle.) Therewas nothing like the disparity of wealth or luxury between ordinary workers and the American super rich, some of whom I knew from college. jks
Barkley Rosser <rosserjb at jmu.edu> wrote: They were running around in Zils. At the top, they were living pretty well. Anybody want a free plane ride to Sochi? Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "ChrisD(RJ)" To: Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:04 AM Subject: Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust
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> From: Michael Pugliese
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> Instead,
> nationalization of the MOP, by a State-Party Apparatus that had congealed
> into a new Ruling Class, with all the economic and social privileges that
> our Rulers grab for themselves and their families.
> ^^^^^
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> To say that the Soviet nomenklatura had anything approaching the economic
> and social priviliges of Western elites is quite mad. They went to special
> shops and could buy Western goods. Th! ey weren't rolling around in
Mercedes.
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