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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (757148)	2/14/2022 9:35:42 AM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By lightshipsailor Respond to of 793897

<<On March 3, 2014, between the February 22 ousting of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and the March 16, Crimean referendum, Brzezinski authored an op-ed piece for The Washington Post entitled "What is to be done? This seems to be a play on a well known little book by Lenin, with exactly the same title, written in 1901 - and Lenin, in turn, borrowed the title from yet another revolutionary, from the 1860’s. Lenin's book laid out a strategy for forming what became the bolshevik party. en.m.wikipedia.org Oh well. Zbig must have been an expert on all this. Our intellectual establishment found his work so impressive that it remained settled (ossified) science ever since. Having a full collection of Zbig’s works must be a prerequisite for a career at the Dept of State. I think one good thing about letting the Soviets take a good beating in Afghanistan was that it pushed them over the edge. It was the beginning of the end of the Evil Empire. Good point about the Russians being tired of wars, revolutions and domestic brutality. Those things happen. In the first century BC, something similar happened in Rome - the people were so tired of decades of bloodshed and civil wars, that when Augustus eventually became an authoritarian ruler, the citizenry was very happy about it. In fact, during the overthrow of the Soviets - when Gorbachev was arrested in a coup by orthodox commies, one decisive moment occurred when the special forces soldiers who, according to plan, were supposed to enter the Parliament building and kill - or detain - opposition MP’s - refused to do so. Boris Yeltsin, seeing the opportunity, climbed on a tank, gave a speech - and the rest is history. Russia announced her independence from the USSR - and Gorby became a president of a country which no longer existed. Gorby, of course, deserves great credit for his reforms - without which, history could have taken a different path.