From: smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Can Yeltsin reelect parlament now?
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:00:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzEsCI.DMB.1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <62898@mimsy.umd.edu>, vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov) writes:
|> In article <Bz9uxs.KH3.1@cs.cmu.edu> smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov) writes:
|> >In article <104545@bu.edu>, simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov) writes:
|> >|> In article <1992Dec8.202556.20058@galois.mit.edu> verbit@cauchy.mit.edu (Mikahil Verbitski) writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> >Unfortunately, to dissolve and reelect the Congress,
|> >|> >Yeltsin needs one of the following:
|> >|> >(a) to gather 1.000.000 votes from people
|> >|> >who want the reelection, or
|> >|> So easy? or you missed couple of zeroes?!
|> >|> less than 1% of population?
|> >|> 
|> >|> KGB could do the job with  1/n-th of it's recruiters...
|> >
|> >   No any zeros can help now. Today a new Prime Minister was elected by
|> >the "qualified majority" - Chernomyirdin. His first words and his
|> >"chernaya myirda" reminded the blissful time of Party leadership.
|> >Perhaps, Gaidar wasn't thin too, but he is an educated person !
|> >Maphia is still strong, KGB ne spit.
|> 
|> Sam durak. How can you know who is better for Russia, Gaidar or
|> Chernomydrin? By listening to American TV and radio? Then you are
|> dangerously stupid. By the way, even great American TV is in
|> disagreement on whether fall of Gaidar was good or bad.
|> Today they ran little talk show on PBS (Lehrer/McNeil News Hour)
|> from which one can see that some people (half of people who spoke)
|> feel OK about this new prime minister with difficult-to-pronounce
|> name. It is, probably, his only big disadvantage.
|> 
|> Please, don't think that I am in support of centrists or conservatives
|> or democrats (in Russia). I just don't know who are good and who are
|> bad -- with exception of communism supporters who were proven to be bad.
|> In your case, I'm just wondering how a person pretending to be for
|> `democracy' uses bolshevik tactics blaming everything on mafia and old
|> regime.
|> 
|> Vadim Maslov.

   BTW, CMU has SAT, if something serious is happenning in your country,
you can come to a library and switch on the TV. I posted this information
after seeing Chernomyirdin's first press-conference which release was posted
today in scs. His behaviour and answers completely identified his
"apparatno-partiinoe" origin. His words ( meaning nothing ) and references to
his first steps were exactly like "I'm representing the weel of the whole nation,
our direction is correct because it's right, etc." Doesn't it sound familiar ?
And the new Russian "democracy" is a kind of mafia - the third one, while the 
first two are sufficiently strong and not separated but to the oposite ...
And the absolute absense of his own thoughts in Chernomyirdin's speech showed
that his is a mannequin, the only question was - who is pulling his threads.
I posted my opinion. 
Speeking about Gaidar:education is a nice thing that cannot be hiden in a pocket 
for ever. Like Chekhov's rifle it'll shoot once. Now Russia doesn't have even a
pneumatic pistol. 

   Yury

P.S. I considered it to be redundant to write each time that posted opinions
are purely mine, employer disagrees.