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Chronicles of a Soviet Capitalist (Part 1 of 2) by Irakli Iosebashvili - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
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Chronicles of a Soviet Capitalist (Part 1 of 2). November 1, 2009. Twenty years later, a Georgian writer recalls the pursuit of money in the years immediately after the Iron Curtain came down. His father was dead and his family was poor, so he began looking for ways to make money as soon as he left the army. Eventually, he would make incredible amounts of it. What was an incredible amount of money in the Soviet Union? As a result, there was often the very un-Soviet problem of having too much money. The b...