Outside Asylum

Posted by Shipguy (A) on October 08, 2003 at 10:25:38

In Reply to: Yoohoo, we buried Kruschev, not the other way around...nt.. posted by late on October 08, 2003 at 10:09:22:

Unlike the post-Mao Chinese, the Soviets could never accept the disgrace of becoming "employees" of the West to earn the cash needed to finance development. If Nikita had actually absorbed what he saw in his 1959 visit to the US, Walmart would be probably be stocked with "made in USSR" goods and China would still be making steel in backyard charcoal ovens.