On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> ...The coup attempt against Gorbachev failed...
No it didn't. It succeeded in its goals, getting rid of Gorbachev and his loose talk about democratic socialism and return to Lenin's original ideas, and putting the KGB/Black Economy bagmen (with all the dollars of foreign exchange stolen and secreted abroad under Brezhnev and his successors) in complete control of the resources of the Russian empire.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on y a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
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