One result has been a general disillusionment with the democratic opening, even some growing support for the former Communist parties. Nomenklatura who, as predicted, are coming to be the typical Third World elite serving the interests of the foreign masters. In public opinion polls, half the respondents considered the August 1991 Putsch illegal, one-fourth approved, and the rest had no opinion. Support for democratic forces is limited, not because of opposition to democracy, but because of what it becomes under Western rules. It will either have the very special meaning dictated by the needs of the rich men, or it will be the target of destabilization, subversion, strangulation, and violence until proper behavior is restored.
Exceptions are rare.
Go to the next segment . Haynes, European Business and Economic Development, Sept. 1992. Continental Illinois, see p. 63. Children, see DD, ch. Polanyi, Great Transformation.