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For seventy years under this slogan
we built the bright future.

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[Slogan on the wall: We are Building Communism]

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The senseless, forced construction
of developed socialism

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dragged a once powerful, rich country into
an abyss of misery, anarchy, soullessness.

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It is time to liberate ourselves
from illusion and return

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to the historical process of social development.

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Today we tie our hopes for a
dignified life to the revival
of the market economy in our country.

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Still we Soviet people have more than one
understanding of what a market economy means.

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Most of us still do not distinguish

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between a "market" and a "bazaar".

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In our film the idiosyncracies
of the economic situation will
be explained by people

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whose efforts are helping to bring
about new structures, create conditions
for the development of a competitive market.

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This is the famous Muscovite
economist and businessman,

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director of the Krasnaia Presnia
branch of Gosbank [State Bank]
Petr Sergeevich Goncharov.

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Goncharov: What is a "market"?
It is not only an exchange of goods,

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but an exchange of activity, work activity.

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This is a division of labor, not
a division of goods or transfers
of goods - those are secondary.

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And money is already tertiary
in relation to the transfer of goods.

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But before all stands
the division of labor.

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In our society everyone is ready
to occupy themselves with any job

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unprofessionally for no
more than 4-5 hours a day.

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Our life has made us such.

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We are prepared to spend time beyond
those four hours on conversation,

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and so we have a peasant basket with
a boiled egg and a piece of bread.

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Then we are ready to talk about whose
basket is fuller, and how they should
come and give us some of theirs.