Word: unsocialistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Left to Communist planners, the imbalances could remain uncorrected for years. But the fraternal masses themselves have found a sociably unsocialist solution that smacks of bourgeois free enterprise. Many Eastern nations now permit relatively free travel across each other's borders, and normal exchange of comradely greetings between Czechs and Hungarians, or Poles and East Germans, is increasingly accompanied by a comradely exchange of goods. As many as 35 million Eastern Europeans use their vacation trips to neighboring countries to buy, sell and barter consumer products. In the process they have created a flourishing underground consumer market-a kind...