[lbo-talk] The difficulty of measuring Russia's economy

joand315 joand315 at ameritech.net
Sun Sep 14 15:30:53 PDT 2003


Chris Doss wrote:


>>> Well, yeah. Red Army soldiers weren't well-paid either.


>> Neither are privates in the US Army, though it is exaggerated how
>> many are on food stamps.


> US soldiers are possibly the most well-paid in the world.
> Societ/Russian soldiers were/are paid almost nothing.

Sometimes Russian soldiers aren't paid at all, as I read in news accounts of the war in former Yugoslavia. -joan _________________________________________________________________
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