>From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au>
>
What I'm saying is that these national ideologies were
>useful tools for those who became the chief local accumulators and wanted
>to
>become ruling classes in their own right instead of paying taxes to another
>new ruling class, often with differing economic goals and based hundreds or
>thousands of km away.
>
Yes, I think this is an accurate assessment of the breakup of the Soviet
Union.
It is better to be president of Russia than head of the Communist Party of
the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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