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To: Neocon who wrote (8664)5/17/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
<<Derek, as I said, I think that an authoritarian phase may be coming, and it need not be so bad, as these things go. My only argument was with the sense of Russia as being forever doomed to extreme despotism..>>

Agreed. It will take a very painful and possibly very long time to achieve a democratic, market driven society in Russia though, which has never known either democracy or the market. For the short term, I am pessimistic, for the long run, we can hope and cross our fingers.
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