Lead paragraph: "A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?"
20% of the way through it: "Yes, I know what you are going to say. There is a world of difference between the dysfunctional planned economy that Stalin built and bequeathed his heirs, which collapsed as soon as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform it, and the dynamic market economy that we Americans take pride in."
The rest of the article: extensive lawyering to try to support the thesis anyway.
So drugs and suicide killed more people in 10 years than COVID-19?
Could it be just because COVID-19 exists since 2019?
see also https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now
Lead paragraph: "A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?"
20% of the way through it: "Yes, I know what you are going to say. There is a world of difference between the dysfunctional planned economy that Stalin built and bequeathed his heirs, which collapsed as soon as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform it, and the dynamic market economy that we Americans take pride in."
The rest of the article: extensive lawyering to try to support the thesis anyway.