DrTorch
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What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
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ummechengr
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
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NIU007
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
Interesting article, thanks for posting. I always thought it was mostly about Gorbachev slowly relaxing the party's grip on everything with some necessary and long overdue reforms, the results of which got out of control. This of course could only happen because Gorbachev was not as ruthless as many of his predecessors, as the article points out. Someone like Stalin could have stopped any cultural revolution I think.
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OrangeCrush22
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
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NIU05
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
Article was soft. The Russians are still ***tards.
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
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RE: What you know about fall of Soviet empire is wrong
"The failure of Western experts to anticipate the Soviet Union's collapse may in part be attributed to a sort of historical revisionism -- "
Ludwig von Mises "Socialism" was published in 1922. I think Mises showed an effective argument why socialism cannot work.
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2011 09:58 PM by chess.)
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