[lbo-talk] The end of Stalinism was a good thing

[JAMES Heartfield]

CG Estabrook writes: 'Surely part of that was the active policy of the
Clinton administration to reduce Russia to the status of a third-world
country. '

No doubt it was, but Clinton could not do worse to the Russian economy than
Breznhnev, Chernenko, Gorbachov and Yeltsin did between them. The Soviet
economy was already screwed by the time of 'stagnation'. Blaming the
failures on the west was by that time a pathetic alibi.