Is The World Better Off Without The Soviet Union ?

[Syt]

I DON'T KNOW MONGERS, LET ME THINK ABOUT THAT!

Dunno, would Hungary be even more fucked up than it is right now?

[Razgovory]

I DON'T KNOW MONGERS, LET ME THINK ABOUT THAT!

Still you should have stuck with the "Tamas cat" you used last time. 

[Grey Fox]

For Russians those under their influences it's certainly is so?

For NATO members, I'm not so sure. Terrorisms would be kept in check in the least & much less Chinese influence all over the world.

[Admiral Yi]

Of course the world is better off.

[Brazen]

I miss the revolutionary enamel badges and being offered $100 for my Levis.

Did anyone else here actually visit the Soviet Union or am I the only one who attended a Cambridge spy feeder school?

[Admiral Yi]

Spent a couple nights in Budapest before the Iron Curtain came down.

[DGuller]

I miss the revolutionary enamel badges and being offered $100 for my Levis.

What did you wear on the flight back?

[Martinus]

Obvious troll is obvious.

[crazy canuck]

Hmm, lets see.

Growing up my generation lived in fear of nuclear war.  Does anyone even talk about that.

Growing up there were two competing economic methods of organizing society.  One promoted liberty and one promoted totalitarianism.  Now, while China is still "communist" in name communism is all but dead.  Which is the main reason we dont really worry about nuclear war anymore.

I was in East Berlin, East Germany and Budapest when they were under communist rule.  I think that any notion that things might have been better if the Soviet Union survived is the worst kind of historical amnesia there can be.