Sound Familiar?

Another tragic fact that transcends the Cold War.

From the Vocabulary of Communism by Lester de Koster:

CHANGE OF LANDMARKS (Smena Vekh): Name derived from the title of  a published symposium which appeared in Prague in 1921, put out by group of Russian bourgeois exiles who also published a journal in Paris under the same title. Some of these émigrés advocated co-operation with the Soviets in hope of gaining a voice in Russian affairs and of participating in the New Economic Policy (NEP), which permitted small capitalists to function. Others favored non-political co-operation with Russian state economy in NEP. With the introduction of the first Five Year Plan, in 1927, these aspirations faded away.

Courtesy of Dr. Tania Mastrapa.