On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote:
> The tragedy of communism in this century is that what had once been
> thriving economies in Europe--Hungary, Poland, and to a lesser extent,
> Romania, Bulgaria, etc.--became poor, command economy basket cases.
Yeah, thriving economies that only a handful of elite got to benefit from
while the rest of the population were pretty much on bread and water. You
really should study the fall of the Ottoman Empire a tad more closely (or
at least quit leaving out the parts that don't fit your pet theory).
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