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March 24, 2005
Nikita Khrushchev, urban visionary
We must select a smaller number of standard designs .. and conduct our mass building programs using only these designs over the course of, say, five years .. and if no better designs turn up, then continue in the same way for the next five years.
What's wrong with this approach, comrades?
-- Nikita Khrushchev, 1954
[Side-note: When complaining about the excessive number (4) of Roman letters used to transliterate one Cyrillic one (above) in Khrushchev's name, I was alerted by a German classmate to the fact that her compatriots find it necessary to use 7: "schscht".]
Posted by michele at March 24, 2005 5:25 PM