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ing his earlier tour foreigners would not have been allowed to visit such a village. The Soviet authorities considered such a village “too primitive to let a westerner visit,” he said.
Other slides showed meat being deliv- • ered to a store in the same building as his apartment. A side of beef was dropped from an unrefrigerated truck onto the parking lot outside the store.
Other slides showed Russians selling whatever they could on the open market. Mr. Purnell said such pictures are even more typical now than before. “Things have not improved for the Russian peasantry,” he said. ‘They are even tougher now than before.”
Mr. Purnell said Michael Gorbachov “will go down in history as a truly great reformer. Re dismantled the system of political crimes and labor camps. He instituted basic human freedoms” of speach and reli
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