Notwithstanding past IMF involvement, Romania remains a Stalinist command economy ravaged by collectivization and other inefficiencies.

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We will never defeat such an ideology which thrives upon the political collectivization of all Muslims if we continue to feed into the mindset which demagogues Muslims as a homogenous collective unit.

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There, an addiction to artificially priced grain, wrong-headed collectivization methods in the late 1950s and economic reforms that have generally favored the cities over the countryside have conspired to keep the peasantry poor and under the thumb of self-serving cadres.

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"Without basic, systemic change for example, the elimination of the command system and collectivization, paring back the massive nomenklatura (numbering close to one million), the replacement of its worthless currency and relief from the colonial demands of the USSR Poland is doomed to continued privation, " Gaffney added.

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"Without basic, systemic change -- for example, the elimination of the command system and collectivization, paring back the massive nomenklatura (numbering close to one million), the replacement of its worthless currency and relief from the colonial demands of the USSR -- Poland is doomed to continued privation, " Gaffney added.

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