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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: The Russians are coming (to the usenet)
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Date: 4 Feb 89 22:23:09 GMT
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In article <11218@udenva.cair.du.edu> ijohnson@udenva.UUCP (Ilene K. Johnson) writes:

>I just returned from 7 months in the Soviet Union.  It is ABSOLUTELY TRUE 
>that private citiizens in the USSR are NOT ALLOWED to own a computer printer. 
>The government in the Soviet Union wants to control the distribution of 
>all printed matter.  For this same reason, xerox machines are very very 
>restricted.  

An interesting note in Computer Reseller News (of all places) said that
according to IBM research there were no countries that had 20 or more
phones per 100 people that are not democracies.  The USSR currently
has 19 phones per 100 people (compared to Wash. D.C. where there are
*more* phones than people).  Perhaps some changes are coming soon...

Les Mikesell