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<DIV><FONT size=2> I apologize.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> Your characterization here is pretty
close to right.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, just because you have published proves
little.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I have read large quantities of garbage by
"Sovietologists."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I suggest however, that we take this offlist as I am
now</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>way over my quota. Doug is forgiving me because he
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>knows that I shall soon be disappearing from this
list</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>again. Just too damned busy and getting too
arrogant</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>for my britches, or whatever.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> My private email is <A
href="mailto:rosserjb@jmu.edu">rosserjb@jmu.edu</A>. I
welcome</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>more restrained private discussions. You may
also</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>see some of my recent papers on income
distribution</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>in Russia and other countries on my website.
Even</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>though the very top of the nomenklatura lived
extremely</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>well, and in some ways that indeed even the top
bourgies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>of the West did not, there is no question that
income</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>(and certainly wealth) distribution was far more
equal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>in the old USSR than it is today in any of the
post-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Soviet states, or certainly than in the US,
although</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>not necessarily much more so than in some of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Scandinavian countries, at least for income.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> So there. happier now?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Barkley Rosser</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>PS: "jks" is not very informative as to your
actual</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>identity, and has nothing to do with your name
label</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>on your messages, although perhaps you are hiding</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>from your employer. No problem, if so, but if
you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>communicate privately, do please let me know</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>who you actually are.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> And I really will shut up now for
today on this list.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><A
href="http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb">http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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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 4:59 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Subject: [lbo-talk]
Genocide, Holocaust</DIV>
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<DIV>I know EXACTLY what I am talking about. I was a Michigan-trained
Sovietologist who, once upon a time, published a fair amount on the political
sociology of the USSR. Don't fucking condescend to me, you jerk. I don't need
your "forgiveness," amd you know here you can stick it. Maybe you might bother
to learn something about the old FSU and about the American upper
classes. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Fond regards, jks<BR><BR><B><I>Barkley Rosser
<rosserjb@jmu.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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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="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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