[lbo-talk] Mourning Mother Russia

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Hey Chris & Peter, get a load of this one. Unfuckingbelievable.
> 
> Brooks at his slimiest accounting for the social disaster in the FSU as
> the "lingering effects of totalitarianism."
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/opinion/28brooks.html?hp
> 
> Inevitable right? It couldn't be the fault of the new capitalist
> relations .....nooooooo.....
> 
> Also, why does the guy wear pink lipstick?
> 
> Joanna

What a fucking idiot.  Lost social bond? No trust? Ruled by fear?  He must
be talking about the United States.  Nobody lived by fear, distrusted fellow
travelers, or felt isolated in x-USSR - if anything there was too much
bonding. 

Wojtek