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To: jbe who wrote (34759)	8/12/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

What are the problems there? Is it another hotbed of ethnic/religious rivalries? Do you think the people of the former USSR are prepared to move into a society which is not coercive? It seems to me that the breakup of the former USSR left a huge vacuum of power, greater than anything ever seen this century - except perhaps the vacuum that was left in China before the communists took over, and further it left a populace unprepared to fill that vacuum with anything positive. Without a populace that is educated and enlightened the only leaders they can expect are hard liners of one orthodoxy or another (be it religious, ethnic or political- i.e. a return to communism). I have a very bleak outlook for the former USSR, but I grant you, it is only based on what I read in this country and on the net. What is your opinion?