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Article: A report from Minsk. (Belarus)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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In Minsk, in the summer of 1992, I spoke to a militia officer (our term for the local police) who worked at the department responsible for the fight against organized crime. As a writer I was particularly interested in the activities (and thought patterns and language) of the newly emerging private business. The officers of the department were well informed, and they were in a despondent and confused mood. "I returned recently from the U.S.A., where I spent some time working in an American police department," the chief of the unit told me. "An American policeman explained to me what we here in Belarus should be doing. 'You want to build capitalism,' said he, 'good."But ...
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