tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64647082116964009742023-11-15T16:25:16.982+00:00Letters from ApparatchistanIndy Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630620497975453742noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464708211696400974.post-68631338446527321052015-07-04T19:59:00.002+01:002015-07-04T19:59:19.455+01:00Introduction to Apparatchistan and the Apparatchiks<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;">Once upon a time there was a small country--</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;">Apparatchistan</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;"> was its name--where the rulers were absolute and their thirst for ever-increasing share of the people's wealth and choice was compounded daily. The dupes of the regime, the people known as </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;">Apparatchiks,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;"> had been infantilized, made stupid and dependent, by a</span><br>
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