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I think the proper term here is nomenklatura.
The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, Russian pronunciation: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə], Latin: nomenclatura) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
Virtually all were members of the Communist Party.[1] Critics of Stalin, such as Milovan Đilas, critically defined them as a new class.[2] Trotskyism uses the term caste rather than class, because it sees the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, not a new class society. Later developments of Trotsky's theories, notably Tony Cliff's theory of State Capitalism, did refer to the nomenklatura as a new class.
Sounds just like DC, when Administrations come and go.
Update: billionaires.
And what does the KGB want? And what will it stop at in its quest for it?
And what was the KGB's main tool in commerce?
It is absolutely naive and infantile to attribute the games being played in the oil markets to the Saudis.
Great post. Thank you. It is sad that such a revelation is not big news all over the world. But such is the power of disinformation.
From what little I could find out before his death, Solzhenitsyn thought Putin was doing a good job. Of course he was a very old man at the time and what he thought was not exactly well known. So who knows? Certainly Putin would want his support. What i wonder about is the timing of his death on August 3, 2008 and the invasion of Georgia on August 7. Could Putin have waited for his death in order not to be criticized by such a great man?