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I heard of the story of the Russian emigres who had done well in the West since the revolution, and decided to take back over the old family estates to get them going again, as they were. The person who was sent to check things out decided after a fortnight without meeting one sober person to give up. I believe that things are improving, but whole areas are run like feudal kingdos with the former Soviet managers now installed as rulers (or owners).. mbuttive corruption. It's hard to tell what is going on, because everyone has a agenda that they bend what is happening into.Probably Russia will manage to live through it all, until a generation that is educated to work a modern economy takes over.. Oh, thats right, the education system is collapsing. I heard another great story about a German company that was hauling stuff (tm) to an area near Moscow, on the way there every little rulerdom(?) (invented word to describe area that some apparatchik ruled) needed `dash' to allow the trucks through, the company complained, so they got a police escort from the border to destination. First trip that way, great, second trip police car started down poorer roads, eventually drove into side of road, police with vodka bottles in car..

Hitler (tm) made the mistake of believing that if things were in a mess, he could just walk in and take over, didn't work.

-- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man