--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: many of the bureaucrats (and a lot of black-market traders, etc.) transformed themselves into capitalists.
JD -- Oh yes, they've done very well for themselves. (Though, interestingly, with a few exceptions -- Khodorkovsky being among them -- the big-name oligarchs were not part of the bureaucracy.) Lots of KGB guys started private-security firms and so forth. ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
