Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: The myth of Allied invasion of R Message-ID: <7800608@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 20:05:00 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.7800608 Posted: Sat Nov 2 20:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 21:28:48 EST References: <544@qantel.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:qantel:-54400:inmet:7800608:000:874 Nf-From: inmet!janw Nov 2 20:05:00 1985 > [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