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Michael Specter, in “Could We Tell Tchaikovsky This News?,” The New York Times, February 20, 1994, Section I, p. 15, writes: “Driven by advertising and money, radio here is beginning to bear a resemblance to stations in NY and LA, where classical broadcasts are under siege.”
32. Janusz Glowacki, “Given the Realities It’s Impossible to Be Absurd,” The New York Times, September 19, 1993, Section 2, p. 7. Glowacki is the author of “Antigone in New York.” Recalling Sartre’s paradox—we were never so free as under the Nazi occupation, he mused—another writer Glowacki interviews complains: “The worst thing is there is no censorship anymore, and when everything is allowed you don’t feel like writing.”
33. Liesl Schillinger, “Barbski,” The New Republic, September 20, 1993, pp. 10–11.
34. See William Schmidt, “Moscow Journal: West Sets Up Store and the Russians Are Seduced,” The New York Times, September 27, 1991, p. A 4.
35. David Lempert, “Changing Russian Political Culture in the 1990’s—Para-sites, Paradigms, and Perestroika,” Journal for the Comparative Study of Society and History, Vol. 35, No. 3, July 1993, pp. 628–646.
36. Quoted by Andrew Solomon, “Defiant Decadence.”
37. “Russian Gadfly From TV to Politics,” unsigned special to The New York Times, December 26, 1993, p. A 18.
38. Cited in Margaret Shapiro and Fred Hiatt, “The Agony of Reform,” The Washington Post, National Weekly Edition, March 14–20, 1994, p. 6.
39. In an interview, “L’ecrivain international choisit la Grande Russie,” Liberation, April 6, 1992. My translation.
40. Cited by David M. Kotz, “The End of the Market Romance,” The Nation, February 28, 1994, p. 263.
41. Cited in The Washington Post, Weekly National Edition, April 5–11, 1993.
42. Michael Scammell, “What’s Good for the Mafia Is Good for Russia,” The New York Times, December 26, 1993, Section 4, p. 11.
43. This would be a sort of democracy since “Russians are used to firm control from the top. If domination by a mafia bureaucracy offered a return to the relative order enjoyed by many under the communist rule, many would embrace it.” Nikolai Zlobin, “The Mafiacracy Takes Over,” The New York Times, July 26, 1994, p. A 19.
44. Along with other fans of order (if not law) at any price, Zlobin will be pleased to know that at least one high-flying member of the criminal class agrees with him: “The Mafia is what’s holding this country together. We do provide structure, and when we take over a business, that business works. It’s noble work.” Andrew Solomon, “Defiant Decadence.”
45. Boris Yeltsin, Address to the Federal Assembly, February 24, 1994, pp. 32-37; translated by Nina Belyaeva, “Rule of Law for Civil Society,” paper prepared for the XVI World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Berlin, August 1994, p. 10.
46. Interview with S. F. Cohen, “What’s Really Happening in Russia,” The Nation, March 2, 1992, pp. 259-264.
Chapter 18. The Colonization of East Germany by McWorld
1. The Christian Democrat poster features slogans like “Off to the future, but not with red socks.” Supporters played on Kohl’s name, which means both cabbage and cash in German, by shouting “Keine Kohl ohne Kohl”—no cash without Kohl.
2. Peter Rossman, “Dashed Hopes for a New Socialism,” The Nation, May 7, 1990.
3. Tageszeitung, August 4, 1990.
4. In fact, tens of thousands of tainted functionaries found their way quickly back into the new Federal Republic of Germany’s bureaucracies. As Norman Birnbaum reminds us, war criminal Field Marshal Kesselring went straight from his jail term to tenure as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s military advisor, while Dr. Hans Globke who had written an authoritative commentary on the Nuremberg Laws for the Nazis ended up as his chief of staff. Norman Birnbaum, “How New the New Germany?,” Part I, Salmagundi, Nos. 88-89, Fall 1990/Winter 1991.
5. The pastor of Martin Luther’s Castle Church