<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 Barkley Rosser <rosserjb@jmu.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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)" <CHRISD@RUSSIAJOURNAL.COM> To: <LBO-TALK@LBO-TALK.ORG> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:04 AM Subject: Subject: [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust > > > From: Michael Pugliese <DEBSIAN@PACBELL.NET> > > 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. > ^^^^^ > > 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. They weren't rolling around in Mercedes. > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).