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MOSCOW is a sprawling yet intense city of seven million people, with an older generation that has suffered deeply-20 million Soviet citizens died in World War II-and a postwar generation that asks not what it can do for Communism, but what Communism can do to make life better. Soviet citizens remain staunch patriots and believe in their system, but they now seem intent on making it work for them. No one talks about Communist-capitalist "convergence," but the Soviet Union is surely developing Western tastes-and the problems that accompany them...
...fact, one major reason why Brezhnev is eager for détente with the West is economic. For the first time, the Soviet Union is in the grip of a consumer revolution, a revolution that can no longer be ignored or satisfied by appeals for more sacrifices for Communism. Under Brezhnev, the Soviet citizen is aware of improving living standards. The average Russian family can buy a wider selection of clothing than ever before, and can eat plentifully, if plainly. Most Soviet workers now have enough surplus funds to save up for a movie camera, a refrigerator and a stereo...
Such a scenario fits in nicely for propaganda purposes with Marxist tenets about the death throes of imperialism and the inevitable victory of Communism. Yet even if the situation does not work out exactly that way, it would be quite unlikely that the Soviets would use their own military might in Viet Nam to try to prove the correctness of the Marxist dogma...
...Anti-communism destroyed most of the progress of the thirties, leaving the rebellous CIO a docile partner of the AFL. Despite the political orientation of the leadership of the AFL-CIO. Mortimer remained forever optimistic...
...joined the Justice Department in 1917, and two years later was head of a new general intelligence division ordered to study subversives during the "Palmer Raids," an anti-Bolshevist dragnet that made McCarthyism a generation later seem a model of tolerance. It was Hoover's first encounter with Communism, which all of his life he regarded as "the greatest menace free civilization has ever known...