--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: Regrouping, to dissuade him from hanging up, I asked how he justified the tearing apart of the USSR and forcing the country headlong into capitalism when there was little popular support for such a strategy. He responded, illogically, by saying he "wanted to support...the democratization of the Soviet Union."
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An odd thing to say, considering that the USSR was dissolved against the wishes of the majority of its population (by "three guys at a booze party" as Solzhenitsyn put it) and Yeltsin had no popular mandate for anything by halfway through 1992. Hell by 1990 two-thirds of the population was against perestroika.
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