RonM wrote: > That's kind of lame. > > "Soviet" refers to a particular kind-of-sort-of-Marxist-Leninist > political and economic model, and you might like to think it had more > than a few tinges of fascism. One thing you can say for sure about > modern Russia is that it is no longer "Soviet" in nature. > Authoritarian, anti-democratic and perhaps even a little bit fascist, > but not Soviet. Actually, much closer now to the > robber-baron-capitalism that characterized the U.S. a hundred years ago > (and which seems to be on the rise again). > > R.
OK, replace "Soviet Russia" with "Robber-baron-capitalist Russia" then. Another problem solved. Next! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94770 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
