[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[Laycock, Jos (OSPT)]

Uh? they didn't, unless you're talking about the failed coup in the 80s.
I'm no ruissian scholar but didnt the revolution usher in communism?
Peristroyka, Glasnost, none of this ring a bell? Gradual reform from the top allowed for a degree of  increased market freedoms and was swiftly followed by economic collapse. Putin's return to autocracy has proved the only effective remedy in recent years. 


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> Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:
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> > Same over here Platt, bloody layabouts.
> > When I try to use the NHS, the surgeries are filled to 
> bursting with the jobless
> > unwashed, who in absence of anything to do with their days 
> seem to pop along to
> > the doctor's for a chat. The unemployed seem to absorb 90% 
> of my tax bills whilst
> > committing 90% of crime and generally making bugger all 
> contribution to society.
> > 
> > Stalin would never have allowed this, too much reliance on 
> market forces, and not
> > nearly enough jack boots in the night. 
> 
> You are describing Stalin's communist system. Why do you 
> think the people finally
> revolted?
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