"In one to two years, we've established an indoor pool, a great study hall, kindergartens and nursing homes all around, and tall socialist buildings that no one else can imitate or speak of," she said.
That year, the Socialists, building on their large German immigrant following and the city's strong labor movement, also won a majority of seats on the city council and the county board.
"Europe can count on it that we will not impose sanctions and that's that," Nikolic said at the Palace of Serbia, a huge socialist-era building on the banks of the River Sava.
While critics blame the Socialists for building up a patronage system that has hindered Greece's ability to stay competitive, others say that because Mr. Papandreou is a Socialist, this has given him more leverage over labor unions and other vested interests to carry out painful reforms.
In the interview, he reflects on the ideas that saw him through democratic-socialist state-building: his childhood reading, in Poland, of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; his determination to be a manual laborer; his skepticism about "big cities," in which people could not be "friendly"; his pioneering of the Negev.
Too much has been made of the socialist ideals the building supposedly embodied.
The new report gives general prescriptions, such as adopting economic and tax policies to reduce the income gap, improving social security for workers and building "socialist democracy" in which people have more control over their affairs.
Everyone calls for change, but in ways ranging from greater tolerance, to socialist revolution, to building fortress South Africa.
This trend runs counter to the socialist ethos of building a community where everybody's work is equally valued.
