On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:15:35AM -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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.
>
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