--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I didn't write that.
I know. -- The fact is that the USSR collapse was largely or partly a result of the Cold War (specifically, in Afghanistan). --- This is pretty open to debate -- Gorbachev himself denies it. But then he himself is an interested party. The USSR collapse I think was largely the result of too-rapid democratization couples with a denial of the nationalities issue. (That is, glastnost allowed radical nationalist and secessionist currents to flourish.) ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
