Khrushchev was great rather than competent. His tremendous domestic achievement was windind down the terror state and closing the Gulag archipelago. A technician, a nuts-and-bold guy, however, he was not. Putin, with his colorless technocracy, reminds me of Kosygin, actually.
"ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> wrote: --- Also yup. Putin is a pragmatic, patriotic KGB man who does seem to be doing a damn fine job. He's the first competent Russian leader since Stalin, which makes him the first competent non-mass mudering Russian leader in a long time. --- -Wouldn?t you consider Kruschev a competent leader too? Alexandre --- On the foreign-policy front, sure. Domestically, there was the brilliant "let's plant vast fields of corn in Siberia!" plan. People still make Khrushchev corn jokes.
--------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030315/feae3489/attachment.htm>