I am really befuddled, as you are obviously a very smart guy.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, well, I hoped for some such to emerge in
> post-Soviet Russia. I mean, I really hoped for
> worker-controlled socialist democracy. Look what we
> got. Sorry, Doug, I don't share your enthusiasm for
> a
> KGB thug who blows up inhabited apartment buildings
> to
> stir up terrorist fears, whose forces massacre
> school-children, who conducts a brutal war to keep
> hold of a Republic to whose inhabitants his regime
> won't even grant basic civil rights, who arrests and
> now poisons his political opposition. I don't even
> give him credit for improving the Russian economy.
> After the wreck Yeltsin made of it, it had nowhere
> to
> go but up.
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