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had a chilling realization: If nothing changes, then pretty soon, these jeans-mongers will be the ones running our government. NEP men!*15 And although it seems absurd, they will be the ones to feed us and dress us, too. They’ll build their factories up from the basements…And that’s what actually ended up happening. It all came true! Today, that guy is a millionaire or a billionaire (for me, a million and a billion are equally crazy figures) and a deputy in the Duma to boot. He has a house on the Canary Islands…and another one in London…In Tsarist times, Herzen and Ogarev were the ones living ...more
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