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A lot of it depends on the time in which you're talking about and none of it is quite black and white. Party members would on the one hand enjoy access to special stores that not only had things like meat, but also cheap wines from the Caucasus, imported products that would be impossible to find other places and stuff like that. On the other hand, during the Stalin purges, Party members were often the most targeted. In one of the books I read it talks about a joke that went around at the time -- the secret police knocked on someone's door at four a.m. and everyone knew what that meant, arrest. As the man opens the door, he exclaims: "But comrades! You have the wrong apartment! The Communists live upstairs!"
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