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To: LLCF who wrote (123516)9/19/2001 3:05:23 PM
From: pater tenebrarum  Respond to of 436258
 
yes, the Soviets had put up their Potemkin village for decades, and everybody believed it was for real. when their system collapsed, the rot was all of a sudden exposed, and everybody in the West was flabbergasted at how utterly bankrupt the economies of the Soviet Bloc actually were.