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 COUNTRY: USSR
 SUHJ:    TAKE 2 OF 8---.ABALKIN CONDEMNS '500 DAYS' RECOVERY PROGRAM
 REF:     PM2709094390 I".OSCOW SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA RUSSIAN 23   .
 SEP///VERY NEAR FUTURE.
 TEXT:
 ((TEXT))  THE NEXT DIFFEr'cENCE CONCERNS THE VIEW OF THE FATE OF
 'I?H# UNION.  YES, OF COURSE ,? THE DEFORMATIONS~WHICH HAVE ACCUMULATED
 IN INTERETHNIC RELATIONS OVER THE DECADES AND THE INFRINGEMENT OF
 TH# RIGHTS OF NATIONS, ETHNIC GROUPS, REPUBLICS, AND R?GIONS ARE
 REALITIES WHICH HAVE BEEN PERPETRATED, BUT IT IS NECESSARY TO
 OVERCOME THEM AND PRESERVE THE UNION STATE.  IT IS A SUBJECT IN
 INTERNATIONAL LAW, A GREAT POWER, A PERkANENT MEMBER OF THE UN
 SECURITY COUNCIL, A POWER WHICH HAS SIGNED MRNY POSTWAR
 AGREEMENTS.  AND, ACCORDINGLY, 'IT I5 A STATE WHICH MUST POSSESS ALL
 THE NECESSARY ATTRIBUTES iN THE ECONOMIC SPHERE a00, HAVE A UNIFIED
 BORDER, A UNIFIED CUSTOM HOUSE AND TERRITORY, AND A UNIFIED
 MONETARY SYSTEM, AND HAVE AT I.TS DISPOSAL THE USSR?CENTRAL STATE
 BANK FULFILLING FUNCTIONS APPROXIMATING TO 'T HOSE FULFILLED IN
 SIMILAR STATES BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, AS IN THE UNITED
 STATES, OR EY THE DEUTSCHE- BUNDESBANK IN THE FRG.  ACCORDINGLY, NOT
 ONLY DOES EACH REPUBLIC POSSESS SOVEREIGNTY BUT THE USSR ALSO HAS
 ITS OWN SOVEREIGNTY AS A STATE.  YES, THE POWERS AND THE BORDERS OF
 SOVEREIGNTY ARE DETERMINED BY TREATY, BUT THIS IS ALL TO COME AND
 DOES NOT YET EXIST, AND WE ARE ACCUSTOMING OURSELVES TO LIVING IN A
 RULE-OF-LP.W STATE AND WE RESPECT AND OBSERVE THE LAWS.  THE
 COI.STITUTIONAL NORMS OF THE UItION EXTEND THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
 THE RUSSIAN SOVIET FEDERATED SOCIALIST REPUBLIC SUPREMs. SOVIET HAS
 ADOPTED ~, CONCEPT AND A PROGRAM WHICri ESSENTIALLY PROCirEDS FROM
 RECOGNITION OF THE ELIMINATION OF THE USSR AS A STATE.  THIS UNION
 IS ALSO SUPPLANTED BY A UNION,~BUT AN ECONOMIC ONE, BY SOME
 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT WHICH IS SAID EVEN TO BE CLOSE TO THE EC.
 IT I5 POSSIBLE TO FIND A MORE ACCURATE DEFINITION -- THE BRITISH
 COMMONWEP.LTH OF NATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, OR MAYBE AN EVEN MORE
 ACCURATE ONE:  THE OLD CEMA WITH ALL ITS FLAWS.
 F.S REGARDS THE NEW TJNION TREATY, IN MY VIEW SUBSEQUENT POLITICAL
 AGREEMENTS WILL MERELY MAKE THE ECONOMIC UNION OFFICIAL, AND THE'
 STATE'S DISINTEGRATION WILL BE P. FAIT ACCOMPLI.  AND IT IS PROPOSED
 TO DO THIS WITHOUT BROAD DISCUSSION, .N SECRET...
 ((3A3IFULLINA))  MAYBE THIS IS WHY .TIiERE IS SUCH HASTE?... .
 ((ABALKIN).)  THE HASTE IS UNDERSTANDABLE T00.  THE THING IS THAT
 AT FIRST THE "500 DAYS" PROGRAM CONTAINED A KIND OF MYSTERY
 EFFECT.  YOU UNDERSTAND, THEY SUGsEST TO PEOPLE:  THERE IS SOME '
 MIP.ACULOUS MEANS, AND OUR PEOPL~. BELIEVE IN MIRACLES OR, AT LEAST,
 THEY WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THERr IS A PbINL#SS PATH, WITHOL'~'
 SACF.IPICES  AND  UPHEAVAi.S,  WIT'r.~UT  A  DROP  IN  LIVING  STANDARDS,
 WITIiOUT A RISE IN PRICES...
 YOiJ  MIGHT  HAVE  NOTICED  TFiP.T  iN  SUCH  CRISIS  SITUATIONS  THER`
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 BEGINS A MASS .BELIEF IN ALIENS, UFO ~, EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION, AND
 MUCH ELSE.  THIS IS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON, YOU KNOW.  I SPOKE OF THIS
 MANY YEARS AGO.  THIS SITUATION BEGAN TO BE MANIFESTED. CLEARLY IN
 THE LATE?SEVENTIES AND EARLY EIGHTIES.  WAY SACK THEN I USED TO
 APPEAR AND SAY 'H OW SOCIAL COLLISIONS GIVE RISE TO SUC~i A B1#LIEF.
 AND SO THE "500 DAYS" PROGRAM ALSO CONTAINED A KIND OF MYSTERY
 EFFECT.  NO ONE HAD YET SEEN IT, BUT TH# IDEA OF ITS
 MIRACLE-WORKING PROPERTIES WAS BEING PURP05EFULLY"AND
 5XSTEMATICALLY INCULCATED IN THE MASS CONSCIOUSNESS.
 BUT WHEN THE PROGRAM IS PLACED ON TH# TABLE, WHEN EVERYONE CAN?
 READ IT, PERCEIVE SOME CONTRADICTIONS AND SHORTCOMINGS, OR, AT ANY
 RATE, TAKE A CONSCIOUS AND CRITICAL APPROACH TO ITS CALCULATIONS
 AND AUTHENTICITY, TIDE MYSTERY EFFECT-VANISHES.  BUT THE TIME WHICH
 ELAPSES BEFORE THE DECISION IS ADOPTED IS DESTRUCTIVE.  AND SO
 PEOPLE WANT TO ADOPT THE PROGRAM AS QUICKLX AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT
 PROFESSIONAL INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS, ON TRUST ALONE.  "LET'S
 BELIEVE SUCH NAMES?ARE THERE, SUCH HUMANE AIMS ARE PROCLAIMED.
 LET'S ADOPT IT, AHD THEN WE CAN SEE.  WE WILL AMEND IT, FINISH IT .
 OFF, CORRECT IT, ELABORATE IT.  WHY BOTHER WITH TRIFLES NOW? ..."
 ((GARI~'ULLINA))  AND, AT THE SAME TIME, BEGIN INTRODUCING THIS
 PROGRAM SUPER-PROMPTLY, AS EARLY AS 1 OCTOBER?...
 ((ABALKiN))  THERE IS ANOTHER NUANCE HERE.  YES, TIME IS
 ALTOGETHER GETTING SHORT.  THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM IS ALSO SHORT OF
 TIME, AND WE MUST NOT DELAY FOR LONG.  OCTOBER 1 MARKS THE START OF
 THE FOURTH QUARTER -- WE T00 EMPHASIZE THIS IN OUR. PROGRAMS.  ONLY
 THERE THIS DATE IS A ZERO OPTION.-- THERE HAS BEEN NO?HISTORY, AND
 NOTHING AT ALL HAS HAPPENED BEFORE 1 OCTOBER.  AND YET THERE IS
 HISTORY.  THE REFORM,IS ALREADY UNDER WAY.  THE LAWS ON OWNERSHIP,
 LAND, AND LEASING HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADOPTED, THE TAX SYSTEM HAS
 BEEN .ADOPTED, AND THE LAW ON THE POPULATION'S 3NCOME TAX HA5 BEEN
 IN EFFECT SINCE 1 JULY.
 ((GARIFULLINA))  WAS ALL THIS THE PREPARATION?
 ((ABALKIN))  XES, THE PREPARATION, BUT ALSO THE INTRODUCTION OF
 THE REFORM.  THE RESOLUTION ON JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES WAS ADOPTED SO
 AS NOT TO WAIT FOR ANY FURTHER LEGISLATIVE ACTS.  THE FIRST
 COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REGISTERED.  COMMERCIAL BANKS, WHICH
 ARE THE SECOND LEVEL OF THE. BANKING SYSTEM -- THERE ARE ALREADY
 APPROXIMATELY 300 OF. THEM -- ARE PREPARING THE GROUND.  THE FIRST
 TRADE EXCHANGES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SET UP AND ARE BEGINNING TO
 FUNCTION.  LIFE I5 ON THE MOVE    THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IS
 DEVELOPING TOO.
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