|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
|| Chris Doss wrote:
||
|| >Just a small comment on this bit by Hakki:
|| >
|| >Any non-Russian citizen of former Comecon countries or former Soviet
|| >republics will agree that the USSR was imperialist, and will
|| probably spit
|| >or swear when doing so :)
|| >
|| >This is true as far as the Baltics go, but a lot of people in the
|| >non-Russian CIS rue the day the USSR fell.
||
|| Wasn't the flow of resources in the old USSR just the opposite what
|| you'd expect from an imperialist power? Didn't Russia subsidize the
|| Central Asian republics? And as for what we used to call the captive
|| nations of Eastern Europe - most had incomes higher than the Russian
|| average, right? Also not capitalist-style imperialism.
||
|| Doug
Is that economism I smell there Doug? You of all people :)
Hakki