Re: Re: Re: why the ussr crashed

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:

> If we look at the so much proclaimed and misnamed "Soviet empire", as
> some would like to argue against my comment above, we discover that
> the opposite situation (that is, that the "periphery" was better off
> than the "center") prevailed, thus strengthening the argument in
> favour of the Soviet system.

Yes, but the Soviet system, like the whole CMEA constellation, is
dead dead dead. Is this the most urgent topic of the moment? What is
this, an antiquarians' forum?

Doug