jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel) (02/02/86)
> > >Could you tell us about the Nomenklatura? > > Nomenklatura is a phenomena unknown to a democratic society. It is a > bunch of people who got to some level of power. Once getting there, > they get all the benefits: High salaries, good apartments, special > grocery distributors, cars, sea resorts and anything you can think of. > And because of that they depend on each other. And they cover each > other. So once they get there, they are there for good. Unless a > > --- > Leo B. Simon > I'm sure it's orders of magnitude worse in the Soviet Union, but I wouldn't at all call this phenomenon "unknown" here in the United States. It all sounds pretty familiar to me. -- J.J. ...{ucbvax,decwrl}!imagen!jay Disclaimers: All the usual . . .