| 41. | The experience solidified their convictions that the Soviet system did not offer an alternative.
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| 42. | The old communist political apparatus is not all that is left of the Soviet system.
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| 43. | The survivors told of feeling abandoned, even after the Soviet system began to change.
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| 44. | But, however flawed and secretive, the Soviet system was at least broadly predictable.
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| 45. | Moreover, they endured the common monotony and meagerness of life under the Soviet system.
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| 46. | And the Soviet system did not collapse but was abolished by Yeltsin and his allies.
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| 47. | Most judges are from the Soviet system.
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| 48. | The result is a hybrid of the old Soviet system and the traditional company town.
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| 49. | On second thought, perhaps comparing New York politics to the Soviet system is unfair.
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| 50. | The brains trust behind the old Soviet system are now behind the successes of Russia.
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