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To: unclewest who wrote (54065)	7/14/2004 3:36:17 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 793575

Extraordinary levels of Paranoia have been well documented in the Russian Bear. That is to a certain extent understandable, especially after WW2. We can talk all we want about Pearl Harbor or 9/11, but the devastation wrought by the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union is orders of magnitude beyond anything Americans have ever known. The Soviet government was very much shaped by those scars, even as it exploited them to control the population. That intense level of paranoia, however, was not usually shared by other communist nations. Also arguable, though one could claim that since communist nations really did have somebody out to get them, a degree of paranoia was legitimate. I would say that the monolithic nature of the communist regime in the Soviet Union sustained the convention of paranoia and prevented the emergence of any alternative opinion that might have challenged that paranoia. I don’t see how any of this challenges my contention that the Soviet Union fell less because of our actions than because of the institutional inadequacy of its own government.

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