“Meanwhile, utopian doublethink continued. The Communist Party Program, adopted at its 1961 Congress, asserted that by 1980 there would be so much food that all workers would be fed free of charge at factory canteens; schoolchildren and students would get free clothing and books; all citizens would enjoy rent-free housing; water, gas, electricity and heating would be free of charge, as would all means of transportation; all citizens would have two months' paid vacation per year. As Khrushchev put it, by 1980 the Soviet Union would "overtake America" in everything—"food, wealth, comfort, industrial strength "”
- Robert Conquest in Reflections on a Ravaged Century
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