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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (9903)	2/18/2003 3:22:16 PM
From: ajax99	Respond to of 25898

beautiful - the sun just came out

To: TigerPaw who wrote (9903)	2/18/2003 3:58:55 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

I can't speak for the Soviet people -- a vast and heterogeneous group crossing two continents -- and I can't say with any degree of assurance what they thought. It is marginally easier to look at the actions of the government, which is what I was talking about. The government sought to keep pace with US defense spending -- but the economy could not support such huge expenditures in relation to GDP. There had always been a lack of consumer goods, but necessities began to disappear too. Provision of housing, medical care, food -- all deteriorated. Social problems, drug use, criminal cartels, petty crime, alcoholism -- all surged with a vengeance as the country teetered. And then there was the devastating war in Afghanistan. M2