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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (54115)7/14/2004 3:43:46 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 793597
 

it took literally generations to come to an end of the Soviet empire.

Yes, these things take time. For a number of those generations, though, the conflict was not terribly well defined: the cold war did not properly begin until the close of WW2, well after the Communists took control of the Soviet Union. We contained the Soviet Union and waited for it to collapse from within, knowing that it inevitably would. It took a number of decades. The alternative – WW3 – might have been quicker, but I’m not sure it would have been preferable.

I can think of two factors that delayed the inevitable collapse. First, material privation had been an accepted reality of Soviet life for so long that it took a fair number of years for people to realize that it was not an inevitable condition, but a consequence of bad government. Second would be the patriotic overhang from the battle against the Nazis, a powerful psychological force that could take generations to fade.

A great deal can be said about this, of course, and it will be debated for many years.

your remarks on this and other subjects have been very interesting and often thought provoking.

Thank you. I’d rather provoke thoughtful dissension than reflexive agreement.
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