The crises keep coming, thicker and faster than the first snowflakes of the season that fell on Moscow last week. The bread and cigarette crises of August have not so much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy.
So it is no wonder that wild rumors fly among Soviet citizens. What is perhaps surprising -- and the surest indicator of growing...
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