Caviar and limousines for a Communist nobility
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Like the inmates of Orwell's barnyard, citizens of the Soviet Union enjoy vastly different degrees of power, privilege and material comfort, despite the country's egalitarian ideals. Soviet Communism has theoretically abolished hereditary classes, but it has neither uprooted the ladder of success nor stifled the urge to scale it. While there are obstacles to social mobility in the Soviet Union, those who make it to the top rely on the same factors...
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