I remember the good old days of the Cold War when the Russians were humorless robots who could always manage to catch James Bond, a British secret agent better known by his “License to Kill” number: 007. But the clumsy, doltish Russians could never hold onto him, and in the process, a lot of Russian [...]
Poor Francis Fukayama. In 1992, he looked at what communism had wrought and proclaimed “the end of history.” The commies had capitulated. The Berlin Wall had come down. Even the ‘red’ Chinese had turned a shade of maroon or mauve. It seemed like history had come to an end…with the indisputable triumph of US-style democracy. [...]
In 1949, the Soviets and the Allies divided Germany into two parts. One part followed a traditional capitalistic path to reconstruction. The other part took the socialist road. Remarkably, they kept this test going for 40 years. Of course it was misery for many of the test subjects. People were so eager to get out [...]
