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Article: Moscow slices bread supply
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 27, 1987
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MOSCOW "Eat bread and salt and speak the truth," a Russian
proverb advises.
Under Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of
"glasnost," or openness, there is more truth, but under his parallel
policy of "perestroika," or economic restructuring, there is less
bread.
The lack of bread in Moscow stores, and the quality of the bread
that is available, has become something of a scandal, so much so that
the newspaper Pravda has turned its attention to the problem.
Pravda, the newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party, reported last week that a recent check of Moscow bread stores