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2UU La paulling" pero , Please return to: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London, N4 , The West + a ra all appearances, it's going swimmingly, with a min mum of teeth-gnashing and soul-searching To judge by the conversation, absolutely is nomenklatura any more. nomenklatura system has evaporated like a mist, leaving the old elite virtually intact and tree to act in their own we dividual interests.
Well, hold on maybe Gorbachev, whose dacha is just beyond the next village, is still nomenklatura. find anyone likethat in Zhukovkaany more: nobody in here but us biz-nis-myen.
Foreign business people who If anything life in Zhukovka, freed moderating privilege. growing more prosperous by the day. Along he shaded laneways, new Mer cedes, Saabs and Audis glint in driveways, Someone is erecting a satellite dish. There is a distinct whiff of charcoal in the air.
Meanwhile, 20 minutes drive away in downtown Moscow, queues for everything keep get ing longer and meaner. Ordi nary Soviets, jostling for their daily cabbage. appear to have about where it's all 600 307 going than they ever did No. 11 Nov. 9, 1991
The rogue's gallery: a continulty of class collaboration from Ramsay Attlee (right) to Harold Wilson (far right).