End of Soviet Union

[johncullen]

Around now, in fact on Christmas Day 1991 Soviet President Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of Soviet Union, and that declaration ended the USSR forever. The tenth anniversary of this declaration occurs around now

[zhuk]

I am sorry about the great state's death.
I do not consider it a devil's invention.

[Bartosz]

It wasn't successful experiment, it had only two sources of living:

- slavery of its citizens (1917-1953)
- money borrowed from western governments(later).

Both weren't to maintain for the long run.

Regards,

[johncullen]

i posted this anniversary to remind people of a horrible totalitarian world now gone, and good riddance. No matter how chaotic democracy gets, there's is no substitute. There are many misguided people in the former USSR who hold strong nostalgia for the 'good old days'.

[kievan]

Originally posted by johncullen
[...]There are many misguided people in the former USSR who hold strong nostalgia for the 'good old days'.

Some are some 8 inches above

The Unregretful Kievan

[zhuk]

In 1991 the state was already dead.
This building was created from 1400 and the material of building were the lifes of millions russian soldiers, who fought german knights in Litva, Turks and Tartars in Crimea and Caucaus, Middle asia and siberia.
Later after the conquest millions of engineers were colonising the huge territories, building new cities, plants, irrigating and envolving the economy of 1/6th part of the Globe territory in a single mechanism.

The social system although in the beginning based on the terror to the nation.
But in the late period it offerred a good conditions of life to the olderly people and a equal rights for the education.
Yes, I agree that there were thousand reasons to kill the totalitarism in the USSR.
But why should we split in some 15 little counties instead of trying to rebuild one democratic state.
Nearly the same was in 1659,then crowds of Ukrainian illeterated cossacks declined Treaty of Hadyach.
The treaty proposed to incorporate County of Rus as equal partner to Litva and Polish Korona into Rezc Pospolita.

[kievan]

In memoriam of Russian soldiers/engineers

He must have a great mind who concocts a Russo-Ukrainian-Azeri-... People's Democratic Republic

What about Martians - shouldn't they be given a chance to partake of that one-sixth of the Globe

The overwhelmed Kievan