'All Power to the Soviets!'
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to tour 10 U.S. cities Zbigniew Kowalewski, author of "Give Us Back Our Factories: Solidamosc SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 1988 Under the title "Impatience," the semi-tolerated Moscow News of July 10, 1988, printed an interview with Vladimir Osipov, a first-class truck driver in the town of Kashin, located near Moscow. Osipov, shown in photo above, fastened a poster saying "All Power to the Soviets!" on his van. His explanation is revealing:
1 kept waiting for them [the bureaucracy] to give up their power.... I saw they were not going to give it up. So l fastened a poster saying "All the Power to the Soviets!" on the radiator and ran. Imagine what happened after that. They started bullying me, threatening to take away my license. "Take the poster down!" I told them, "The slogan is Lenin's." They said, "We'll call the militia....
I said: "Only the bourgeoisie didn't like that slogan." They said, "All the power already belongs to the soviets."
But no! They have no power. Once a deputy, a lawyer by education, came to us. I asked her: "What have you done to solve our problems." Said she: "What can I do, who will listen to me...?" That's the kind of soviet power you have. No, power is what Lenin conceived it to be. We elect it and we ask from it or from those who hamper it. Otherwise it's not power, only semblance and verbiage.
They appointed everyone for us. Those who are allegedly wiser. But let's elect whose who are not wiser than us, but who can hear us. We've seen enough wise guys who don't listen.
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