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March 30, 2004

Commies Kick it Old School

she.jpgIt's nice to see the old timey Communist traditions being upheld in today's Russia:


Russia's wealthiest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in prison on fraud and tax evasion charges, praised President Vladimir Putin in a newspaper article published Monday and called for higher taxes on businesses.
In the article published in the business daily Vedomosti, Khodorkovsky criticized himself and other tycoons for failing to help the poor and for insufficient patriotism. He also criticized the post-Soviet privatization policies that made him rich.

Mmm, essays of self-criticism from people in jail. Really takes you back, doesn't it? In unrelated news, I learn that John and Belle Have a Blog (along with all its Typepad brethren) is now banned in China (via Hit and Run). And just when we were singing the glories of Sichuan dumplings and the Monkey King! My next recipe is coming straight from Taiwan, I tell you.

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loy

Come to think of it, Monkey would have been a great commentary on the Chinese government if Wu Cheng'an were writing today--with the Jade Emperor's Court as the CCCP or whatever. And of course, it would have been banned. Oh for a monkey wrench...

Posted by: loy | March 31, 2004 at 04:19 AM

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