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There is more to the new Soviet UnUnion than budding young Russian entrepreneurs dreaming about the mountains of hard currency they can suck from their video-McDonalds-Michael Jackson-starved fellow countrymen, and Harvard economics professors drooling over the thought of making the new Soviet world more efficient by dismantling bureaucracies and closing factories...
Since the failure of last month's hardline coup and the apparent triumph of democracy, capitalism and the right for every Soviet to do whatever she wants to anyone else, American politicians and journalists, each more gushing than the next, have been lauding the new Soviet UnUnion and excoriating the old. If we are to believe them, the defeat of the coup means "freedom" and "opportunity" for Russians, Lithuanians, Kirghizians and Georgians. Now every last one of them can set up a flourishing small business and vote for dozens of exciting new politicians...
...know enough, don't care enough, aren't smart enough, aren't independent enough, aren't healthy enough and aren't brave enough to learn to survive in a capitalist world. One day, perhaps in 20 years, the transition to capitalism will have made the Soviet UnUnion a healthier and wealthier place than it ever was under Communism. But that is cold comfort for the voiceless people...
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