[mrustow]

Numerous ex-soviet officials I've heard interviewed on the topic of the collapse of the USSR beg to differ.

That doesn't make them right.

[skeeter]

That doesn't make them right.

Maybe not, but you must agree that they offer a more qualified opinion than the tourist who wrote this article:)

[Paul Ross]

Numerous ex-soviet officials I've heard interviewed on the topic of the collapse of the USSR beg to differ.

They were right. And you are rather pious and intemperate against those who disagree with your pet revisionist theory...especially for someone who casts unwarranted personal attacks around so freely...