<DIV>This was the line of Jean Kirkpatrick and her followers among some of the pre-post-Soviet "intelligentsia." Turned out to be wrong there. "Democrats" like Yeltsin and Putin were perfectly able to marginalize unacceptable politics. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:
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