> 1. The predictions of the downfall of the Soviet Empire are nothing new,
> all right. But the ones who first saw it coming were Soviet dissidents. I
> recall a samizdat by Soviet dissident (his name escapes me at the moment)
> titled "Will the Soviet Union Survive until the year 2000?" circulating in
> Eastern Europe in the 1970s. The answer was no and for the reason cited in
> this review - internal economic inefficiencies (well know to central
> planners since the 1950s), bloated military, parasitic oligarchies, moral
> bankruptcy of the system.
Actually, the anarchists predicted the eventual fall of the Soviet Union way before this.
Chuck