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Change we can believe in | 47 comments (47 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Change we can believe in (none / 1)

Let's see, did try do change the system, without changing its core precepts, led the country into crisis and civil war, loss of superpower status...

Might happen. Will not be pretty.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 04:55:30 AM EST
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Not civil war (4.00 / 5)

We have to give Gorbatchev credit at least for that: there was very little bloodshed under his watch, ie the empire's dissolution was peaceful.

The wars that did happen afterwards (Karabakh, Chechnya, Transdniestria, Tadjikistan, Georgia, the 1993 coup) cannot really be blamed on him.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 04:59:58 AM EST
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Re: Not civil war (none / 0)

Well, that might be hyperbole for the August'91 coup.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 05:03:01 AM EST
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Re: Change we can believe in (4.00 / 2)

so five years down the line after the collapse, the gangsters, and militarists will be in charge under the benevolent lead of the head of the CIA?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 07:27:54 AM EST
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Re: Change we can believe in (4.00 / 2)

You mean, like for the past few decades ?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 09:19:00 AM EST
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Re: Change we can believe in (4.00 / 3)

Wondered who would notice first. ;)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 11:08:09 AM EST
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Re: Change we can believe in (none / 0)

ceebs:

so five years down the line after the collapse, the gangsters, and militarists will be in charge under the benevolent lead of the head of the CIA?

lol, sounds about right... autocracy with lipstick, in latest hollywood hot pink shades of 'liberty'!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Feb 10th, 2009 at 11:12:12 PM EST
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