| could survive only when individual possessed farmland and a network to realise surplus product. For example, proprietors used to spend almost all of their free time from work in the collective or state farms for her own land cultivation and surplus product production.
Annual financial incomes of the employees of the collective and state farms (percentage.)28
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The shadow status of the private sector influenced a perverted evolution of property relations, where resources for development of private sector were obtained by dubbing the functions performed by state sector. Sovietism in Lithuanian society has formed the specific understanding about economy, its administrative principles and rational behaviour skills, and also a relatively strict social differentiation. Economy management was understood as an execution of the directives from the superior power structures, allocation of tasks and control of their processing. Good execution of a task corresponded to bigger volume of material used and smaller amount of tasks received. This was achieved only when having good relations with power structures.
“One had to work then. The most important thing was to do, what one was being told to. Why do more than told, why to sweat for free.” (K. R., 68 yrs.)
According to different accession “rights” to the process of resources’ allocation, the privileged society groups had formed. In case of Lithuania, the privileged group consisted of representatives from soviet farm or state company ruling layer. Though the aforementioned layer had to follow the directives of Soviet power and to control the situation, it was active in private business activities too. The status and its indicative privileges guarantied the immunity of this ruling layer.
Post-Sovietism: second stage of transformation in property relations
The majority of responders understood property as legally and socially regulated sphere, which consisted of personal and real estate as well as its production, which could be due to private or state sector. The cult of public property and embezzlement of goods, which resulted from this cult and was declared as the universally accepted phenomenon during Sovietism, affected the current understanding of property. The respondents distinguish the individually owned property the most strictly. It is not important, whether it is a personal or real estate, it is identified as personal ownership of a particular individual. Any impingement on it is handled only in a negative way.
The situation regarding the property that belonged to joint stock companies and individual enterprises is quite different. It is induced by a number of factors. Firstly, whether the company is local or foreign and how it has obtained the property. If the company cheaply bought up the property of personal and real estate collective or state firm, than the embezzlement is treated as legal activity.
For example, stock companies are the soviet farms, reformed to agricultural companies, the shares of which (pajai) belong to the majority of the villagers. The property of such a company is
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28 Lietuvos statistikos metraštis 1990. Statistinis rinkinys, p. 44. | 
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