Re: Why did the USSR fall

["Chris Doss"]

Mea culpa -- I realize it is extremely bad form to send out a string of very short 
posts containing addenda to previous ones, so I'll stop (I think that because I am 
doing this while preoccupied with various and sundry pressing issues contributes to 
this). But I thought I should add on teh subject of higher education in Russia that 
the percentage of Russian young people in institutions of higher learning has greatly 
increased since 1991, largely as a way of getting out of or at least postponing 
military service (which might mean Chechnya and has a lot of brutal hazing). 
(Education correlates with income a lot more than it used to as well, at least in 
certain fields.)