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> Moreover, there aren't a whole lot of Russians under the age of 70 who want
> to return to the Soviet system.
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Nor I wager even any who are too sentimental about life either during the collapse of the SU or during their default and crisis in the late '90's.
My detail knowledge is subpar, but are the Russians leveraged up the wazoo on subprime debt too? Was Lenin, what, selling us the rope on which to hang...?
Never mind.
DC