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Subject: Re: Re: The myth of Allied invasion of R
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 20:05:00 EST
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> [Gabor Fencsik {ihnp4,dual,hplabs,intelca}!qantel!gabor ]
> [answering <50400001@hpcnof.UUCP> Larry Bruns]

I believe Gabor's points to be both true  and profound.
(I don't know Gabor, but I've never seen an article of his that
was not worth re-reading).

Let me add this. 
Though hypotheses in "alternative history" are unverifiable,
it is quite likely that, without Communism, the Russian empire
would have fallen apart. All the others did (count:
Austro-Hungary, Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Portugal,
Spain...). This one survived, and spread, and keeps spreading.

Communism provided it (1) with an incomparable machinery 
of power and (2) with a supranational, internationalist
ideology, acceptable to the ruling class of subject lands.
It also (3) made economic gain secondary to power gain, so
the empire needn't be cost effective to exist.

		Jan Wasilewsky