Abel Aganbegyan, chief economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Aganbegyan’s address was titled "Perestroika: Prescription for Changing US-Soviet Economic Relationship." After speech, Aganbegyan answers audience questions. Both speech and question/answer period are done via translator. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
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Good afternoon. I'm Mark Dayton a member of Minnesota meeting. It's a pleasure to welcome all of you to Minnesota meeting today. We also extend a warm welcome to our radio audience throughout the Upper Midwest were listening to Minnesota public. Radio's midday program.Minnesota meeting is a public affairs Forum which brings National and international speakers to Minnesota over 1800 corporate government and Community leaders belong to Minnesota meeting. I am honored to introduce today's speaker ockham addition Abba logon Beggin. Dr. Agon Bagon is reported to be the top economic adviser to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He is credited with being the real architect of perestroika the economic restructuring program currently underway in the Soviet Union. Now the head of the economics division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, dr. Agon Beggin oversees the study of economics in the Soviet Union.As one Soviet official has stated when Gorbachev looks at economic reform. He looks to Abba log and began. Dr. Agon Bagon is in the midst of a three-week tour of the United States being hosted by The esalen Institute Soviet American Exchange program. I serve as a trustee of The Institute and was honored to be part of an American delegation which met with dr. Agon begun in Moscow last summer and which invited him to the United States. We are delighted that he accepted. Dr. Agon begin. We'll talk today on perestroika prescription for a changing us Soviet economic relationship. He will describe the ambitious economic changes underway in the Soviet Union and the possible effect upon the United States Soviet economic relationship. Following his presentation. He will respond to questions from the audience. Please use the cards at your table to jot down questions for discussion Stephen young Professor of law at the University of Minnesota will move among you to manage the question and answer session. It is now my pleasure to introduce to you. I'll come Edition. I belloc and Megan and his translator. Mr. Harris Coulter. The mega spider that live nearby chased you so much. It's a complete study team Sabrina. It's a great honor for me to be here in this very representative group. Yes, just notice immediately move out. Rosanna starter is an Emulsion. Rosin mdl. Mmm. No parallels here. We attack Russia chooses some stature. Then six times the United States and I've been in a number of states of this country, but I never felt quite so good about it as I do today. Well, not suggestive strength due to a serious knee process process Nashua. We have a very interesting process occurring in the USSR today. It is a total renovation of our whole society. You were to be destroy coca it across the key Revolution is currently coached in this vegan. You are scheduled for perestroika robust economy. It's a Pity what we call a piteous Troika really means a revolutionary change qualitatively qualitative change in the whole structure of qualitative shift in many areas of Soviet Society including various areas. The one I'm going to talk about today is as it relates to economic activity conditioner Lucho the interests of each gemstone has a solution the ocean prayatna below snatch the score but it's debuted in a group is wash or stata by it must who is most about you Village is me any category priesthood to not restrain you It's better to see something once than hear about it a hundred times and I very happy to hear that day. Very distinguished group of minnesotans are soon going to be traveling to Moscow where they'll be able to see what's going on there with their own eyes. We've got no Miki be destroyed. No shit Monopoly on O Hara Kiri Casa its sheer sphere. In the economic life of our country perestroika is going to introduce changes in all areas. Emotional vigil each tree has nominee. No, probably Nia three particular ones, which I want to single out today here in the probably Nieto Shalini Shalini our interests in a show economics courses with you borrowed narrowed nor has asked of store nourish a knee problem Eurovision. Miscellanea. The first one I want to talk about is how we are going to shift our investment priorities around a satisfying consumer demand. We're going to use our economic potential henceforth primarily to improve the standard of living of the country. Very shady aging said that ship Musashi Nets. Tally is ordering reason your natural narrow. The suggestion is that we estimate industrial and emotionally strong new Revenue raised which and now we've been very backward in this respect in the past and our country and our people standard of living no longer corresponds to our economic and our Technical and scientific potential. And there's a pressure p destroy Q PD love meat tendency stagnates or even Asia Katarina's privilege narrow be addressed immediately. He was busy in the last two years. We succeeded in overcoming and turning around the tendency towards economic stagnation which had become manifested since the late 1970s 50 changed would steal it but Slade nickname New Village early IBM religion astrologers of idea of what she would want me Luna who are T. Really? I did knock them off during the last 20 years. We were only building about 2 million Apartments private Apartments per year, which didn't lead to any great expansion in the in the private housing area because of the population increase that what boredom we really chilly. Yeah, that the water does book million of trucks. So dish courtier even a challenge given us the god of severe. I'm sure which in a straight stroke million. We now have succeeded last year in building two million three hundred thousand, which was a jump forward and by the 1990s were hoping to be building 3 million Apartments per year little go ahead and I'll show the bought it problem is they're all of you. Celia Daughter Speedway is AdWords publish. Its 360 distinguish me - Jimmy D Street. It's a great it's Madness. Health is another area which is of great concern to us and last year for the first time over the last two years for the first time in 20 years. We've succeeded in increasing life expectancy from 68 to 70 years on the average and in reducing mortality know what you mean log is this nearly shown in the process of PETA more pass leading you go. The colder air has a village in Boudreau. Crania not reach present Point new terrible. There's a good deal to be done though. And so we have increased the budget on health services and health expenditures by 50% and we've also increased the salaries of Physicians nurses and other people working in the Health Professions by 30% In addition to that. We have set in place a long-term program for improving the medical system. Music s dogs are not should have such a large group. New reform will not see sister. My brother Vanya Virginia seemed deserted village, um capital in the streets to school. He Jabara Dona Nazareth presented by Daniel is Arabic nicola26 chili. Well, we're also very concerned about reforming the educational system and we've started that by increasing by seventy percent are capital investment in school construction and school equipment and we've started we've raised a teacher salaries by 40% the most notably that's pretty wide each resolution the fact but it alone of Poirot te Crees a new problem no masses no other option. I could give you other facts along these same lines, but we recognize that everything which has been done. So far is only which you might call a very modest beginning and we have much more to do what she mmm. Vina Romney's Minea cut or a preservationist Ronnie strain, you got the perestroika published you glass - chakri Dynasty risk is meaningless gadgeteer or knowledge religion Aquino geometry. Everybody here at the West I'm sure is aware of the major changes which have been introduced in respect of the mass media in the USSR newspapers television radio book publishing theaters. These have today are unrecognizable in comparison to what they were a few years ago of option - Edge style a lecture about tacky. Well, the other words we can breathe easier now and as far as our intellectual life is concerned because we can say what we want much much better than the was the case several years ago. But this hasn't led to much of an improvement in the standard of living. We still find that people stand in lines to buy basic goods and the like You absolutely adore when you got daughter. Michelle has provoked him. Picasso which to Minogue you know, she seemed really bloody strike as public opinion surveys we are doing and the research we're doing shows that the basic family and our country hasn't really benefited in any way from the results of the perestroika to date Mr. Kim glove Nigella P destroy kiwi secretary-- pocket or more stats. Any what's especially set a robot and it's only by its impact on people's standard of living that we're going to be able really to evaluate the success or failure of perestroika. You missed him so that she can do to your lead. The other category work Robles Devoto. Lucania has low vision and the next two or three years were hoping to make a substantial Improvement in this respect of people's living standards that will go in the probably in EP destroy kunas Karina Karina progress another area, which is going to be very much affected by perestroika is the area of Science and Technology. We're trying to improve our accelerator scientific technical progress my meme that will nourish with to you now who coup by she knows to his kids a jelly Brosnahan blastia notion block his spoils the image and I should steer rhenium not practical for is what we do have some rather good science been practiced in the USSR. We have some rather good technical Technical and technological developments, but we're very backward and applying these to the production process he put each unit of nice coma presentable of linear production technology. The reason for this or the result of this is that we have a very little replacement of our principal capital goods about of the machine which we use in our production process. She just moved probably she leaned over you in which its own political naturally associate research group new techniques to reconstruct the breast of emotions Triana. We are trying to change this now and we're starting with the machine tool industry, which we are starting which we're hoping to radically alter. Presentation of linear production machines 363087206580800 G VG % of washing machine manga do is a prime XI which initially got me a present of Napoleon III not spare Ascent of this you said, you know stomach Ordon Weaver replaced three percent of the Capital Equipment in the Machine Tool industry in 1985, 9% 1987 and by the night the year 1990 and following years were going to be replacing 13% of all the Capital Equipment in the Machine Tool industry. 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It's a hard time for all of us. It's a time where many mistakes and many reverses. It's a time when we're dismantling the old production process. They can the old system of factories in production relationships and the new system is not yet in place. So natural it's a time of great confusion and of great difficulty for us, but we don't see any other alternative. III destroy care reform Robles to provideniya yet ashes glove Nigella at the third area which is being affected by pretty Striker relates to the whole economic administration of the country. And this is probably the most important area of all there's this straight Speedy hot hot taco command. The prick has no administrative. My sister Mo probably India carthoris La revolution has Pro sleepy, dude. No vaginas system. You probably are supposed to new mechanics commutative ring. Spirit establishing. I'm sure okay economics of aboard appropriate stress which a copyright evening individual sector of economic. Now what we're trying to do is to get away from the old economic system, which was one of hi-hi centralization. And the we're in the central organ simply issued commands to the outlying Enterprises is what you call a command economy. We're trying to to abolish that and introduce an economic based upon ordinary and Economy based upon ordinary economic and market mechanisms. This involves granting a good deal more freedom and autonomy to the Enterprises at the local level and also involves, encouraging cooperative and individual forms of production. If you can you do create perestroika my as a statue on the sportingly provided as an experiment. He was Knockin Ezra bodily conception or which system you probably in your program. PD holed up in a vertical Sparrow univariate washing machine washable. Go to jail real nice Shaggy property Hodo economic system will probably well for the last two years. We've been involved in analyzing what has been what was wrong with our economy and when planning and working out concept setting trying to figure out a course of action, and now the concepts have been established and accepted and by starting with next year we're expecting to take definitely practical steps in implementing these new plans, but it free at you now Speedy budgets and Paul NE has a snare a short to spoil me some occupy most NASA Mafia 90 Anya Massimo probably Nia unites Novi national pride establish rock is a mistake - Priya Priya Brazil, which is a druggie Sphero problem. The all of the factories and Enterprises in the country are going to be put on a budgetary basis. They're going to have to be self-financing and they're going to have to be self-administering and no on the basis of this new autonomy at the producing level. We're hoping to effect a total transformation of the economy. Maya could in the mobiles and P destroy him system of plant Nero media Finance Bank of solution coordination. I'm Global new reformed sin. P destroy matter Steve-O is real. No probably not reach. Peace at present naturally chassis crash at a parado. Probably nervous. I wear a change in the system of planning the central planning system has been radically altered we're changing the system of financing of Enterprises. The banking system is being reconstructed and in starting in 1989. We're going to reform the whole price system of the country. We're also going to work going to work on the local and territorial organs of government which are going to have their powers reduced. And in addition to that the central Ministries are having their powers greatly curtailed and we're going to be firing a 30 to 50% of the bureaucrats working there. yesterday serious surprised what's known as central Arizona sperm should limit the fond of so she just review its optimized our goalie email. We are expanding the scope and the operation of the of the market. We're start were establishing a market in producers goods and hoping to develop and distribute produces goods in the economy on the basis of this wholesale Market rather than through the system of centralized distribution, which has been in effect up until now buddy reform its in. Yes. Kibou. It's a Christian a sphere. Gazoo there's no centralized 09070167039 spheeris Robotnik the governor Nixon awesome a system of certain budget provision core of nemirovitch on yet has destroyed the beholder of delineation convert your image to rubella the guys at that should we do nothing? The price reform is going to greatly narrow the scope of the central authorities and setting a price levels and it's going to greatly increase the number of products upon which prices will be subject to the ebb and flow of the market or will be based upon contractual Arrangements. There's we're hoping that all prices in due course will seek the level of the world market prices on the same Goods this end of in turn will create the conditions for making the ruble that convertible currency. Princess Pea District in the cohesiveness in economics kg8 next National Organization see previous table Chirac was most necessity rather than National organizations in Primo. We had an Amir away Riddick. Nach the says Daniel submission appropriate he's in astronomy fear me. They are pretty strike is also affecting foreign trade relations of the USSR many of our Enterprises now are being granted direct access to the World Market, they can contract with other companies and other countries and furthermore were setting up joint ventures with many foreign companies. Picasso's towards the chest semester propriety studiers Madrid coach tryst pretty sleepy shot is Eric 26 joint ventures have been set up to date another 300 are under active consideration and of these 50 or proposals from American companies. North British law ninotchka bullshit booklet Snatch I would be destroyed you khakhras whites National Economic. Well, two years have gone by since we started our efforts at reform and how do you suppose the economy has been behaving but a motion is that were go to Villa shows not give its present of silk has a sniper is what's in a dish to present. Our industrial production has gone up 9% and agricultural production by 10% during that time that's ocean was non-stop resources your namu village least establish Ministry dodo SodaStream million of tone. Praise was a massive initially. Just not the patch to give it not stimulation of stone. Malaka. We wish list even a stereo door Star Trek million stone. We've increased the grain production from 180 to 210 million tons meat from 16 to 19 million tons and the production of milk from and milk products from 93 to a hundred and three million tons. After the low numbers more than to do is to critique import for diversity is through Geeks Tron genius coolest Battalion in Syria. No production problem is really easy. Just got to him mirror project cock Isabel shows courage Rose Cisco has a chest. This has made it possible for us to cut back by 50% on food imports while the same time slightly improving the nutritional status of the population, but indeed the problem of providing adequate food to our population has not been resolved and we have to further accelerate our cultural production. He's the DH is the lovely Melody me rush or starter position theorem. Venus does this bullshit? Yes tragedy surprised. What's interesting here is robot key Global creepy robot. Cos x cos H knee product see Admitting businessman here in the state of Minnesota last couple of days. I see that you have a great deal of experience a long tradition in food in the food processing area. She just will not study of school. We teach in the capital Naval Arena vasya process Rania transport layer of Kia Soul. We are now in greatly increasing our investments and everything to do with food storage or transport and processing. This is a very backward area in our economy up until now you were the oldest team was within a larger than the condition should okay cetera. And I think week they would be a very great scope for cooperation with businesses in Minnesota in this area. But for interior spiritual attacks are pretty large area for buechele a nice a truenicks to verbosity stroke Rania. They're opposed to Grand Prix Rodney 3D collage educator masud Ali motion by shaving ammonia that we've heard some very interesting proposals also for cooperation area of Health protection and protection of the environment which is a new area for us and one in which we are getting particularly interested. You can usually Robles to motion Australian system control electronic give civitas decision about sapna selenium techniques kielbasa, and of course, we are extremely interested in everything to do with with control systems with Machine Tools with everything to do with upgrading and improving our capital goods basis of our economy. A few perestroika ocean trued Nigella Prudence in Appalachia Catholicism in yoga ball. Shemitah casals. Yes. He seriousness operative leonetti perestroika and sister an aperitivo bureaucratic Co-op errata. Did he strike a turned out to be a very difficult thing to undertake? It turned out to be much harder than we thought it was going to be that's been a very great deal of resistance from various quarters and Society particularly from the bureaucracy youth Rudin is the cruciate stumps to see mid-80s we have over a mini was spittin of drug induced nausea chilly start but no Monica do my yeast which the problem as there are children around time. We've been educated in a certain way. We're accustomed to thinking in a certain way and we have to overcome our own limitations and try to do things in an entirely different way. Which of course is not easy. Yeah. It's but I'd say speed record economics committed Amo. Probably India is revenue with what puppet show no cheats apply. Watch what on the video gue yellow progeny attack separate style cock, please no pack anyway. - Waldo nip oblivious. I compared the whole process of economic reconstruction with someone learning how to swim he can practice all he wants on the shore doing the necessary exercise in the making the right movements, but until he gets in the water, he doesn't know if he can do it, right or not know what Julia gun yet spread A Little Sheba Vishal Vado nice big house, and I'm not gonna keep it tight Spanish are certain Iowa, Nevada caucus the new Cruiser Barack tits patates public, but then at last the individual overcomes his nervousness and trepidation sees not put up with out by the fact that the water is a bit cold he goes in and then he tries to determine if in fact the water is supporting him. Some up a severe tooth root Nigella. What we know is it's very hard in any case to try to hold yourself up in a totally new atmosphere and a totally new medium and of do I need through tonight? Yes, Rick Doty Badgers, Donna gorillas are co-actors patates Galloway a couch so technically balls and it's of course twice as hard if people standing around a pushing you under or grabbing your body by the leg about the arm and the preventing you from hoping that you'll choke a little bit and then give up the struggle. If I have the most bizarre past so it's a good idea to have some sort of Life belt or to hold on to and during the process. If I don't go - brush, that's presumably Romney PDT Cox has that beautiful dark deception. So people ask us why we don't want new openness to create a stock market for instance. So issue stocks and shares in our companies. Well, we figured that would just increase the whole scope of the area which we don't have any experience with and would make it much harder for us to do everything else. We have to do another snatch old no cheats who provide a cheaper steamer income recovery rates. Have to start with simple things. So we're starting with a commodity Market inside the country and going to attempt to make sure that we don't get let inflation get out of hand that the prices don't go out of hand. And once we've mastered that then we'll pass on to the next stage not no, yes, but even wish the minimim beautiful my pocket and Mary screams but coin but one advantage I think of not having a stock market is that we can sleep easy nights not worrying about She just what the turquoise Ami critiques key period on a spirit stroke in my pretty Hashem Muslims cassatt's love good yellow and now we're just adding a really critical period and perestroika when we're passing from words to Deeds. Very good about yoga reach the some I will show a ship Academy what she has more from Silver sheet at by yatsuhashi bits of Buddha shakyamuni Natok active energy storage now go boshoff as often told us that the biggest mistake we could make would be the fear of making a mistake that will prevent us from being a sufficiently audacious in our planning and in our actions. Well that's near drug way. But I returned achiever economics course sudden or as we check awkward perestroika was Karina at abares which we just don't have any alternative other than in reconstructing the economy and attempting to move forward more rapidly. You buy it when we conditional boojum dial should you get 6. You globalization process. So we are proposing to push forward with it and broaden it and deep in it and and carry it through to the end. Cocoon has go without that stupid nominee okuda. We have no place to retreat to as we put it spicy was of pneumonia. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Dr. Abel Megan. You can see from the warrant of the audience response how much we appreciate letting us see through your eyes this historic period in history of the Soviet Union and now according to our Minnesota meeting format. I would like to take your questions for our guests processing. I will start down here. Jane mrazek will be with the microphone at this end of the room have a question right here. Let me know who's coming up next. Why don't you just read the question or put it in your own work if production of consumer goods and capital goods are to increase significantly what will decrease in importance events space. I further arms reductions agreements with us necessary to accomplish these plans. Not shitters to Christchurch where your nearest cottage which is the culture no cigar rhenium. 04038833 Molly double G preached I a nice Maya. We would employ skis of in Astana. We have already started. In fact to cut back on our defense industry investments in connection with the the agreement on the elimination of the medium and short range missiles. So sign of the United States and in May we're going to start withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, which will permit us another reduction in military Investments. We were shooting that James is the prettiest President Reagan National. There are no pretty videotex a glossary know. Could be sadness English Reno Batista present them to crush a nice sturdy square or any store sadness. Tirana dust was most bullish in security Roscoe Dana bironas request. Ronnie proposed pooch. Kick drug. Mmm. Cigar shanian precious glass rhenium or secretion which version of Europe might reach the Finish repairing Lorraine asoc Russian Duma. And we're hoping that the that when President Reagan comes to Moscow will be able to sign an agreement on a 50% reduction in icbms, which will enable us to make an even bigger cut in our defense budget and we're hoping will lead to further agreements on disarmament specifically on the withdrawal of conventional troops from from Europe and we've made in fact a three proposals in the discussions on the withdrawal of conventional troops from Europe conditional is into the soul in its aggression arrest code of Navarro rainy priesthood Leah divorced over music. Obviously we are or indeed. We are very interested in any type of disarmament agreements. Not only because this will permit us to curtail our investment in the military sector but primarily because it will increase the security of both countries, which is the highest goal. Thank you Jane. We have a question over there. Thank you. Do you feel sir that focusing on consumers that is quality of life health and housing benefits that your economic Revolution will take hold and succeed. She probably has a pretty strong case 3D printable crying at the conditional conversion of popular Earnest perestroika, no garage diversion evolutionary Ginny Lee Jay much time Stone National Road strange reason you on destroyed nominal galluccio slowly. Well indeed, we do want to make the pre-strike program as popular as possible among the population and to this this will be furthered by any Improvement. We can make in the standard of living. We do not feel that the our citizens have been living as well as the country could provide them or as they deserve up until now there's a gym we scored you must have washed or she likes key factor. On was logging what several men you great service rest assure all Eve's every semester topic actually Riyadh. Cock Richard's you wore soaps knee probably am one Satya snake robot it ocean, which is really serious. Mr. Shibata Effectiveness robot. He would have pneumonia actually vehicle official national robotics. Slowly reason. I promise you as a Pilates result at Metro de poshi-ne in such evil what show progress Indeed the human factor is becoming more and more coming more and more to the fore in any efforts to improve productivity of society and how people live and whether their own needs are satisfied have the most pronounced impact on the productivity of the individual as we're coming increasingly to realize so there's an intensification in the row and more intense closer and closer tie between the satisfaction of individual satisfaction of the worker and his ability to work productively and we are paying a great deal of 10th much more attention to this Factor today. We're tying wages in with the overall economic success and profitability of the Enterprise. We're giving the worker much more freedom and autonomy and deciding reaching decisions relating to his job and to the Enterprise he works in and we're hoping that all of this will give us results. Thank you very much. We have a question here. Kuklinski University of Warsaw Poland, I have two questions. The first one is related to the philosophy of the Enterprise. How deep will be detained just in the philosophy Enterprise and especially in changing and director of the Enterprise from a bureaucrat into an industrial manager, which is not only an economic political but also psychological problems and the second question is related to my professional experience namely How Deeply the changes will be in the territorial point of view territorial planning and the development of local economy in the Soviet Union. Thank you very much. cut our losses and cut it into a territory because HP destroy guy who probably need that equipment Gertrude Nigella and I just points at UCR who cock revalued since we are hook actors garbage of it and as well. No, no emotion. Teammate. You speak talk about non slushy. Yes River to perestroika screenshots show Rocky III - Sheamus has booted cactus. Now if it is truck has a very multifaceted operation. It's was started from above. It's a sort of revolution from above as Gorbachev has called it but this isn't enough and it will be successful only if we succeed in enlisting the support and the enthusiasm of the workers at the lowest levels. You would conclude give critiques perestroika philosophic you up Ross. My regional is Nach tgpd code example, probably new to assess risk up of she narrowly through Devoe Collective. So the question is the philosophical question is how do you get people to be involved in this whole process and we decided that the best way to do it is to make the Enterprise self-administering autonomous independent in its economic decision making and also as part of this by increasing the input from the workers themselves through their Collective organization through that were collectivity Peru or no music. Oh, no appropriate Johannes booty tooch Dutch plan pretty creative cash-strapped a Slovenian stancy. Is that your budget a privilege not probably Niche research category. Priya's Roboto. It Narrows needs a lie. He probably buried reactor. So according to a new law which has been adopted. The workers Collective is going to have three principal functions one is to prove the make give final approval to the plan of work of the Enterprise in this will not be able to be changed by any higher authority. It'll be up to the workers collected to decide itself what the factories going to produce during the forthcoming year the second area in which the workers Collective will have autonomy is in determining what the what the Surplus what the prophets of the how the prophets of the Enterprise it to be to be used and the third area is election of the factory director. We use the key to open to the angry Bulgaria babuji reactor problem negotiation experiment even estranja sheepishly with the shortstop Tony period perestroika ocean wash Lee geum collectible Chilliwack no Kitaro Collective edit coached tagged out most of the bullish Melody stretcher team inequality. We produced a uh, you know vanakkam potamus 29004 - not yet. So we study the experience of Hungary and Bulgaria as far as the election of factory directors went we did some experiments along in our own country. We decided that the only way to ensure that the Enterprise would be able to be self-sufficient and autonomous and be able to withstand pressure from above and would be able to take the necessary audacious decisions which have to be taken in this under these new circumstances is by having the director elected by their workers because then he knows he has the confidence of the workers and he knows he has the whole Enterprise behind him. And this will give him the courage which they will have to have conditioner about that. Uh, who's loyal wooded new poster and no numbness. No cheats are about it was like democracy. It's not going to be easy. This is means working in conditions of democracy, but we have to learn how to do that. Thank you very much. A beautiful portrait real problem. You asked about Terror territorial policy. We have we are in fact developing a new Regional policy and we studios in the rush really Brava irresponsibly Community organization. We've expanded the rights of the constituent republics of the country and of territorial organizations were giving them new rights and obligations and budgetary and other areas. We did I lifted it real new probably Nia if you are group promotional sphere 009690 Chester elitist such sadness fear preys was with me at naropa tribulation. and we have placed under the Aegis of the territorial economic administration's the Agro industrial area of the economy construction manufacturer of consumer goods and many others if totally Moon us connectionist, are you so serious in the central is only from the streets Shi Wu ji Soo disaster, so masuka Toro Revenue at Europe At the same time a good deal of power and a good deal of money remains in the hands of the central government and it can use this in order to adjust any differentiation which might emerge as between the development of one region and another to smooth things out and to help the ones that are falling behind and to to the work on any priority Regional problems, which seem to be affecting the life of the country as a whole. Thank you very much. Jane a question over there Karl Marx wrote from each according to his ability to each according to his needs first Secretary Gorbachev and his book entitled perestroika wrote from each according to his ability to each according to his Works. What is the significance of this rather modest wording change? Easter Rising server from here of cajamarca is going to show you need cocoa nibs and changing. Yeah, yeah do much curvature van Marxist Fred of all carriers dump allegations principle of Marxism appreciative. It's it's not cheat at cards of a post Persona steam cars dopo Trudeau attack away natural. Awesome. Crispy gilja. Well, I think that Gorbachev is still a Marxist and therefore he does it here to the fundamental rules of Marxism and the in any way a quote from each according to his ability to each according to his work has been a god line in the USSR for a long time. No, what are the hopes you principle in them? Knock our the metope Nepal night sky came to concrete them soldiers rhenium recites khaki to concrete Anissa - kotora what she just stay at but this is a general country General principle, which has a slightly different content depending upon the stage of development of the country. And not depreciable will necessity God is present astronauts chest another priest who says that Lucius Floyd let our subtract more previous race pathogenicity greater another opportunity brother Vanya that Lou Jim Weber interior snare bottom nirvash Raju shilajit Works key element of a terrible lawyer. And this means I giving every individual in the country a better working conditions better conditions in which he can manifest his own capacities and capabilities. This means improving the educational system. And also encouraging workers initiatives in various ways. You mean you was not be speech this week and a lot of the victims jot College to catch the truth after a macaque de pastino Freeman has got spots. And we have to adjust pay differential pay differentials to account for to reflect improved quantitative output. But also to improved quality qualitative output we've up until now been extremely radical egalitarians in that respect than when namely that workers who worked much better and produced much more did not thereby get find their salaries being raised you move Fury meecham know we form a pilate what the key for me Kotori be preview value. Should I be okay? Choose to has a pattern. We should a coach has revived collectively Patriot. He'll see me in podría to calculate a group collectively will see Mia zany music repaired. So just grab an Apple watch out for his ultimate. He summoned me and we are also seeking new forms of production once which will give the producer and a true feeling of involvement in the production process and we're striving to introduced certain types of Cooperative forms of production involving a Cooperative contracts between cooperatives and other organizations and also within agriculture in particular. We're stimulating a family type contracts. Where by on a call Jose a family group will take Possibility for some area of production and as it were will contract with the whole call halls and take full responsibility for that area production. Grandma told me he was Moses luteum Cinemas individuality through wg- to is a nice Christmas bonus Trish Trish various nachos, and you must take him Justin Trudeau video. On course, we are encouraging individual economic activity an individual entrepreneurs. Now, we have 300,000 of them have made application to become individual producers and this is just in the last several months. We're sure that this number will greatly increase and as I said, we're encouraging the formation of cooperatives we have about 13,000. Cooperatives in existence already, but all of this is just a modest beginning. Thank you very much. I will try to take two more questions first from mr. Dick Lyman will the estimated four to five million Communist party members or bureaucrats permit these reforms while they themselves suffered changes in their own power or benefits or perks sometimes described as an economic benefits. We have less stove is DLC. But your skin I'm not sure this party needs to be repaired million for give it not smear other. Yeah, I need to sterilize Chestnut other illusia Hatchet perestroika, but emotional body interesting robots through go CO2 poochie Pooch. So I reason Hmm-hm cheetahs bully 15 the truth, which I provide set perestroika the Rope, which is this net. Well, there aren't 45 million a party members, but in fact 19 million and so they constitute a significant part of society and obviously they're just as interested as everyone else is in improving the standard of living and improving the distribution of consumer goods and none of us there anyone else knows any better way of achieving this but then by ensuring that everybody works harder and better be destroy its New Tokyo economic conditioner. It really sphere hopes to see what ideologue a police car is am a party to which process perestroika And the pretty stroke affects not only the economic area as I told you but many other areas of society besides and including the area of ideology and political life. So the Communist Party itself is going to have to undergo a process of Reform when last if she didn't you go the budget. She said I used a party near convenience sake for Ronnie the rat sweetie democratization if party In mid-1988. There's going to be an all-union Party Conference, which is a very high-level meeting of the all members of the Communist party and their representatives in which at which time the principal item on the agenda is going to be further democratization of the life of the country including inside the Communist Party itself. If so, your mom was still playing in need of an employee of limits and try another budget process. shotgun at a recent plenum of the of the party comrade Gorbachev said that we had to look much more closely into delimiting the functions of the party members from those of the administrative apparatus of the country and the productive apparatus of particles within the party has with in all other areas of society. There are different views about perestroika, but the majority of the party is in favor of it, you're going to political opposites perestroika an astronaut and there is no political opposition in the country to Department policy of perestroika. But that must approach the new customers in a pretty lucky guy with ratchets problem. The premier be very hard for anybody but to get up on a platform of return to the old days that simply wouldn't fly. You shouldn't beat not Ski Bus lead nucleotide slow hacheney. Can I meet scoffs? That's a lie? No papa. Rellena Nash astronomy in Ruby Ray shamita Shetty stagnates. He was Nick repeat Krishna natural sneer at Disney production and then civil suits for the last 15 years. In fact it is this good old days where a time of General deterioration and the hole in the country's whole economic situation with the actual drop in the standard of living so nobody would possibly Be able to set up an urge return to that. Thank you very much. And we know you will quickly become an Olympic swimmer in your efforts. Welcome addition not going to beg on behalf of Minnesota meeting and all of us here today. We want to thank you very much and to present to you this peace pipe made by a Minnesotan Robert Rose bear in The Proud tradition of the American Indian Peace. Pipe was a gift of peace between peoples who recognized their Mutual ability to destroy one another but there are far greater interest in learning to live together in peace and friendship and an understanding and it's in that spirit that we infer Minnesota and Minnesota meeting present this peace pipe to you today. Yeah, Oceanfront washroom minimize stretch this summer. I previously I just didn't minako's now, but she watched that he will drive snatched. It's bullshit because room chamber area. I'm very touched by your kindness and consideration and I appreciate this gift very much. I've learned a great deal from my stay in Minnesota. And I'm leaving is you might say with my suitcase is heavier than they were when I arrived.