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“Social Contract”
 
Tacit bargain between the regime and society
The state provided job security, social benefits and income equality in exchange for compliance from society
Social base of stagnation: inefficient government and economic elites; unskilled blue-collar workers; collectivised peasants
 

The Six Dialectical Contradictions of Developed Socialism
 
We do not know unemployment, but no one is working
No one is working, but all production plans are invariably fulfilled
All production plans are invariably fulfilled, but shops are empty
Shops are empty, but people manage to get all they want
People manage to get all they want, but they are all discontented
People are all discontented, but when it comes to voting, everyone votes "pro"
 

In this sketch a Brezhnev's look-alike tells a couple of jokes which make fun of Brezhnev's senility.

 

 
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