Nobody in Eastern Europe agrees with you.
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> "upper echelons"=nomenklatura=the "post"-Stalinist ruling
> class
> "the intelligentsia and educated professionals"=the most
> super-exploited group of workers (paid the least proportion
> of their product) under Stalinism.
> Their "ire" was "more directed at the system" that denied
> them the most elementary personal and political freedoms.
> And constantly insulted their intelligence.
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