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273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Transition to Democracy and Capitalism in Russia

After the collapse of communism, there was a very common attitude of positive feelings toward democracy and a desire to i think this is when things begin to open up in the russian mediate. A lot of people had the feeling that this was how we went to live. And they were really hoping, probably very unrealistically, that once communism collapsed, yett were all going to live like americans. Obviously, that is not the way it turned out.

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