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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Selectric II who wrote (14370)6/7/2004 1:55:27 PM
From: Kevin Rose   of 173976
 
The Soviet way of life needed an 'evil empire' to justify their oppressive way of life. They villified America as that evil empire for decades. The Soviets kept such a stranglehold on information that the Soviet people believed much of the propaganda.

The miserable economic conditions were caused by the Communist system. People had no motive for individual initiative or for working harder than the guy next door. To get ahead, people had to subscribe to the corrupt system. The effort/reward system was all screwed up.

Surely you don't believe that Soviet Communism itself was viable, do you? I know people who visited and lived in the Soviet Union before Gorbachev, and they describe it as a miserable way of life. Once they saw that a better way existed, THEY pushed on the wall until it came down.

PS why do most of those on the right seem to reach for a Coulter argument (no facts, opinions only, then rip with the insults, e.g. 'political hatemonger')?
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