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To: marcos who wrote (5545)	5/17/2000 6:12:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 9127

there was an intense period of optimism [now there's an ism i like -g-] in re communism when it showed the power to get rid of those Tsars ... which is a big part of the reason it took seventy years before significant numbers of people there realised communism didn't work. I suspect that the World War 2 experience also had a good deal to do with the extended Russian tolerance of Communism. A country with an experience like that in recent memory is a lot more likely to tolerate excess in the name of national security. Those egregious parades of military hardware that we associate with the Communist regimes in Russia and China are not simply to threaten neighbors or their own citizens, they are a "never again" declaration. To us, that seems an excess of institutional paranoia, but we do not have their history.