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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Anton  wrote:   
      
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >   
   > > In the seventies to around 1982, the perception was that the tide of   
   > > history was running Russias way, that for better or worse, communism   
   > > would dominate, that Reagan's adventures in Central America and   
   > > Afghanistan were futile, stupid, and inexorably doomed.  Had that   
   > > perception still been strong, doubt in the worth of communism would   
   > > not have so swiftly led to collapse in the political power of   
   > > communism.   
   >   
   > Communism did not die because of some Latin American or Central Asian   
   > proxy war, but because it does not work as a socio-economic model, and   
   > the _residents themselves_ in already socialist (european) countries   
   > said "we've had enough!" to their leaders.   
      
   Does that explain the timing? It had been not working as a   
   socio-economic model for a very long time before it fell. The point at   
   which its failure resulted in mass starvation was many decades before   
   the collapse.   
      
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