Gorbachev on Lenin and NEP

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Alexandre writes:
- -(althought I wouldn?t heve the answers if you asked me what could be
- -done to avoid the USSR collapse)
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Me: 

Me neither, though the extent of the USSR's economic crisis in the late 80s
was overrated. There was no chance of famine in 1991. Those figures on
failed agricultural production were cooked in order to undermine the
Gorbachev regime and get Western support and "aid." Hell, practically
everybody in Russia grows their own food at least in part.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal