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<DIV><FONT size=2> I don't think you know what you are talking
about.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I do (sorry to be pompous about it).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> You are right for the vast majority of
nomenklatura,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>especially for those in the provinces. For those
really</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>at the top, it was a very different matter. You are
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>forgiven for not knowing because what they did
and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>how they did it simply has never been publicly
disclosed,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>certainly not fully.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Barkley Rosser</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com
href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 06, 2003 4:14 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Subject: [lbo-talk]
Genocide, Holocaust</DIV>
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<DIV>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<BR><BR><B><I>Barkley Rosser
<rosserjb@jmu.edu></I></B> wrote:
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were running around in Zils.<BR>At the top, they were living pretty
well.<BR>Anybody want a free plane ride to Sochi?<BR>Barkley Rosser<BR>-----
Original Message -----<BR>From: "ChrisD(RJ)"
<CHRISD@RUSSIAJOURNAL.COM><BR>To: <LBO-TALK@LBO-TALK.ORG><BR>Sent: Friday,
June 06, 2003 4:04 AM<BR>Subject: Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide,
Holocaust<BR><BR><BR>><BR>><BR>> From: Michael Pugliese
<DEBSIAN@PACBELL.NET><BR>><BR>> Instead,<BR>> nationalization of
the MOP, by a State-Party Apparatus that had congealed<BR>> into a new
Ruling Class, with all the economic and social privileges that<BR>> our
Rulers grab for themselves and their families.<BR>> ^^^^^<BR>><BR>>
To say that the Soviet nomenklatura had anything approaching the
economic<BR>> and social priviliges of Western elites is quite mad. They
went to special<BR>> shops and could buy Western goods. Th! ey weren't
rolling around in<BR>Mercedes.<BR>>
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