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To: Oblomov who wrote (23798)12/26/2004 9:04:12 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein  Respond to of 110194
 
""Soviet Union would have collapsed anyway because of the fact that socialism did not and cannot work""
This statement can be boring peace of irrelevant demagogy
if anyway means in 1000 years
or it is wrong:
N Korea and Cuba do exist today and so does
Iran, Saudi Arabia Nigeria ZIMBABVE ETS MANY COUNTRIES WITH
ineffisient economic structure supported by oil revenues and/or
state terror.



To: Oblomov who wrote (23798)12/26/2004 9:09:43 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
There were other things as well that hastened the collapse of the USSR.

Little known is the role of Radio Liberty, which for years beamed messages encouraging secession, political identity, and knowledge of world affairs to populations of the the border states, many of them muslim.