AC Smith wrote:

starman wrote in message ...
Simon Mason wrote:

Yes, but my point is he didn't have to be on RM. What's the point of
being a journalist in a totalitarian country? That's why I think he did
it for the perks.

Well, I'd bet what you think of as "perks" in the Soviet Union might
have been what most people would think of as "necessities". So Joe
was born in a country where journalism didn't mean much but that is
what he wanted to do.

I am happy for him that he has outlived that period to tell us exactly
what things were like and how terrible it was.

Go Joe!

I was thinking of perks like getting a nice apartment, not having to
wait years for a telephone or the best all perks, the dacha by the lake.
None of those were considered "necessities" by the average Soviet
citizen.


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