-=> Quoting Keith Knapp to Mike Angwin <=-
 MA>        Again I am in a minority position, but I beleive the Soviet
 MA>Union collapsed because it's ecconimic system was flawed, not because
 MA>it fell so far behind the United States in how many times it could
 MA>obliterate humanity.  It was in the realm of ecconomics that the
 MA>Soviets were destroyed and they destroyed themselves. Their
 MA>agricultural system, based on non-productive collectives and inferior
 MA>grains simply couldn't feed their populations.
 KK> I don't have documentation on this, but some time after the Gulf War,
 KK> Colin Powell said that back inthe early 80s they had good intelligence
 KK> suggesting that the Soviet Union didn't have long to live.
 I don't have a reference handy, but I recall Rush, several years ago,
 told of a Russian scientist who said that the Reagan defense build up
 was exactly what pushed the Soviet Union over the edge.
 david.hartung@mcione.com
 Ilks of Metropolitan Walls/LENS
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