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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
The Soviet Union did have significant problems, food & clothing shortages particularly, but the idea that everyone east of the Berlin Wall lived under a nightmare police state is hyperbole and propaganda and dare I say, indoctrination, from the West.
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Regarding economic conditions inside the Soviet Union, I suggest a read from the late 1960’s: Workers’ Paradise Lost by Eugene Lyons. Remarkably prescient. This work has figured strongly into my efforts to build a v1 chronology that connects 1989 with the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet War in 1995.
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Last edited by Webstral; 05-29-2012 at 12:12 PM.
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