> The economy was mainly in crisis not because people thought it was going
to
> fall apart, but because they were pursuing the age-old and slightly crazy
> Russian preoccupation of Catching Up With the West at All Costs, which the
> system was not capable of doing, and probably no system was capable of
> doing.
Why is no system capable of doing that? -------------- Because of the massive development gap between East and West.
Chris Diss The Russia Journal