Of course, @RadioFreeTom was a professional Sovietologist then; I was just a college kid. I don't think anyone expected Russian democracy to survive (more or less) for a decade, then be slowly strangled from within.
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I shared that concern about the Army being the repository of ideology. (It was; on that I was right.) I should’ve thought more about the security guys, but I didn’t expect a guy who had worked for Sobchak to be the vessel of old school Sovietism. :/
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My fear was less ideology than the simple fact of power vaccums: a massive army whose purpose & chain of command had been lost.
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It was really the merging of what remained of the KGB with the Russian mob the set things off. Organized crime got their hands on a nuclear state.
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I never believed Russia would ever become a democracy. Not after they shot my grandfather for not joining their army in 1917. This guy also expressed his doubts, and I always deferred to his judgment on anything Russian.https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sptimes/obituary.aspx?pid=124100162 …
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