Marx Against Them Coming to America is tough. Coming to America from the U.S.S.R. is tougher. Then try starting a business...

Entrepreneurs are evil.

That was the sort of thing you learned behind the Iron Curtainin the midst of the Cold War. That was the message drummed into theminds of Mikhail Kvitchko and Mikhail Markov as they grew up in the1960s and 1970s.

But it wasn't drummed into them enough. Now known as MikKvitchko, 43, and Michael Markov, 41, these two former Russiancomputer programmers are American capitalists in New York City,co-founders of Markov Processes International Corp., a technologyconsulting company for the financial services industry that hasprojected 1999 sales of a little more than $1 million, double whatthey made last year.