File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-23.012, message 30


Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:46:10 +0000
From: MA&NG Jones <majones-AT-netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: M-I: Mr Rosser's Understanding of the Soviet Constitution


Rosser Jr, John Barkley said

>     I have only one major disagreement with the post below. 
> It is not accurate to say that Gorbachev created the post 
> of president.  It had long existed.  Kalinin was president [blah blah]


Wrong. They were all presidents of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
Gorbachev was the only president of the country.

-- 
Regards,
Mark Jones
majones-AT-netcomuk.co.uk


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