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Plain Talk with Vodka
Chilton III, W. E. | November 11, 1968 issue

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The author in this article presents an account of his visit to the Soviet Union with a twenty-two-member American Study Mission. According to the author, to counter the oppressive influence of the Communist Party and its tired elite there was emerging a constituency of technicians who, though a political, had to be placated. The mass of Russians, it was felt, now had a stake in the development of their country. Consumer shortages and universal deprivation were no longer acute problems. Although nationalism played too coercive a role in Soviet affairs, the country and the people were sincerely interested in establishing cordial relations with the United States and in promoting an indigenous prosperity.

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RUSSIANS; ECONOMIC development; NATIONALISM; SOVIET Union -- Economic conditions; INTERNATIONAL relations; UNITED States; SOVIET Union
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