[net.politics] Nomenklatura

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

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