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...personal level, this means that day-to-day life in the Soviet Union is as difficult as ever. Not only are big consumer items like refrigerators and washing machines in short supply -- the average wait to buy the cheapest Soviet car is seven years -- but staples of everyday life are also scarce. Long lines snake into the street for such ordinary items as sausage, rice, coffee and candy...
Gorbachev's reforms are part of the problem. He is trying to force factories to become financially profitable, so they are gussying up products in order to price them higher than the everyday models that are price-fixed by the bureaucracy. Moscow consumers were deprived for months this winter of regular soap (32 cents a bar) because enterprises wanted to produce only a luxury soap that they could price...
...forest near Minsk came across a heap of human skulls pierced by bullets from Nagant revolvers fired at close range. The prosecutor of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic set up a commission to investigate the murders. Last July more skulls and bones were unearthed, along with paraphernalia of everyday life -- remnants of packed lunches, purses filled with kopecks -- indicating that the people had been snatched from their daily routines to be shot. With that, the truth became clear: from 1937 until the approach of Nazi invaders in 1941, Joseph Stalin's secret police had used the Kurapaty forest...
Despite the activism inside and in front of MemChurch, everyday activities in the building seemedto continue as normal. Business went on in thebuilding's basement offices, and a 9:30 a.m.session of "Focus on the Family" for young mothersand their toddlers went off without a hitch...
Cardinal fans, for just one day, do not burn Don Denkinger in effigy as they have since 1985. In Toronto, the dartboards with Dane Iorg's image in the center, pierced everyday since the 1985 playoffs when his pinch single shot down the Blue Jays, have...