From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:ddfr-B527E4.00462922082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > 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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