Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Quote of the day


Received via e-mail:

"We cannot tolerate the proliferation of this paperwork any longer. It is useless to fight the forms. We must kill the people producing them."
- Attributed to Vladimir Kabaidze, Director of the Ivanovo Machine Works near Moscow, in a speech before the annual Communist Party Congress, 1936.

Methinks the man had a point . . . it would certainly curb the growth of bureaucracy and Big Government if the bureaucrats were pruned back like that!

Peter

3 comments:

  1. A couple of articles about his glasnost year efforts on Gorbachev's behalf and his visit to the US.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/30/world/notes-from-the-underproductive-a-soviet-plant-manager-s-blunt-words.html

    http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-01/local/me-3144_1_elbe-river

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  2. As comrade K was in effect calling for the violent overthrow of the government, he probably go a one-way ticket to Siberia the next day.

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  3. @Billll - ah, but he wasn't! Everyone who heard him was sure to nod in agreement - for all THEIR forms and requirements were vital to the health of the State, but everyone knew those clowns across the hall with their reams of useless red tape.

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