>In a message dated 8/6/2002 1:24:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>dhenwood at panix.com writes:
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>>They accepted unions right after WW2 because they thought they didn't
>>have much choice. Thirty years later they started busting them in
>>earnest (not that they were ever so mighty in the south). Why, if the
>>co-optation/distraction strategy was so effective?
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>Would the precense of the Soviet Union and the Cold war contribute to this?
For sure. There are reasons to miss the USSR.
Doug