Parasites: the Soviet unemployed
NZPA-AFP Moscow The Soviet Union proudly boasts of vanquishing unemployment, but nevertheless admits to half-a-million “vagabonds and parasites,” according to rare official statistics. Nikolai Bajenov, first deputy Attorney General, supplied this figure to an ideological seminar attended by party cadres in the Moscow region. The figures show that another relic of “capitalist society,” which in theory should have disappeared under socialism, is still flourishing: alcoholism. The Bajenov figures, rare in a country which never issues statistics on crime or social evils, said last year 11.7 million people, or an eighth of the work force, were arrested for drunkenness. It said 700,000 of those arrested were drunk while driving.
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Press, 24 October 1984, Page 24
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