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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack@Jun 6 2004, 04:56 AM
But that was going to happen sooner or later anyway. Russia was never anything more than a second world nation on steroids.
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And Reagan is the man that made everyone believe that.
"What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth." - Paul Samuelson, MIT, Nobel laureate in economics, 1985.
"On the economic front, for the first time in its history the Soviet leadership was able to pursue successfully a policy of guns and butter as well as growth ... The Soviet citizen-worker, peasant, and professional - has become accustomed in the Brezhnev period to an uninterrupted upward trend in his well-being" -
John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1984.