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Article: The socialist infrastructure. (column)
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- March 19, 1990
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Democracy-nuts, please note. Before the end of May, there will be elections: in the Soviet Union (city, district, and republic legislatures, this month and next). "Newly institutionalized political structures," to use the language of Leon Aron, a Sovietologist with the Heritage Foundation, "will be in place in key independence-minded ethnic republics following popular elections: in Lithuania on Feb 24; Moldavia, Feb 25; the Ukraine, March 4; Latvia and Estonia, March 18; and Georgia, March 25. And then there will be popular elections in Hungary, Rumania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia."
Now by the end of May, the politics of the Soviet Union and of ...