Just to get some sort of reality check here a question for Akenaton and Ivor:

"How many Russians were members of the Communist Party"

Population was 293,047,571 in 1991. In 1989 the Party had 19,000,000 members. That is roughly 6.48% of the population Ake, Ivor.

Now tell us do you think that they were treated the same as everybody else in Russia, or did Party Membership carry with it enormous privileges - Animal Farm, Ivor "All animals are equal except that some animals are more equal than others".

As Don T says the millionaires were already there, Lenin, Stalin, et al, they just replaced the Russian Tsarist Aristocracy with their version of it - "Workers of the World Unite" indeed - Complete and utter load of bollocks if you ask me and they all knew it from day one.

Yet even with all those gullible little epsilons beavering away night and day the system they worked under failed to feed them.