Life in the USSR Series Live Stream 8 - What was/is Blat

In Live Stream 8 of the Life in the USSR Series, Serge and Dmitry will talk to me about "blat" (not the swear word, which is spelled different but sounds similar.

In Soviet times, as a result of class division into "friends" and" strangers", as a result of the inequality between citizens of one country, a phenomenon appeared that is popularly called"blat". It was blat that caused a new class inequality and a new division of Soviet reality. There were classes of merchants, classes of taxi drivers, classes of doctors, classes of party workers, etc.. Everyone who had access to any resource was the "right" person. Some "friends" found other "friends," and exchanged services and resources.The necessary connections appeared. The network of "necessary" people became a closed elite community and allowed the same people to join their networks.

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