Funny you mention...
I was reading this old thread tonight, and I was thinking in the same vein.
Reading that old thread, I noticed how both the US and Soviet governments became infested with a criminal class right around the same point in time as the Russian crime syndicate suddenly exploded in NYC.
Right around the time the Berlin wall fell.
We are completely rotten at the top.
Read this old thread and get worried.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0c30a81760.htm
Welcome to the USSA.
From a quick google search:
"In 1961, a high ranking Soviet defector, Anatoli Golitsyn alerted the CIA to a 40 year plan to lull the west into complacency and lure the USA to a military defeat. Golitsyn warned that: 1. the USSR would fake it's own collapse, 2. we might witness the fall of the Berlin wall, 3. there would be a fake split between China and the USSR, 4. the Warsaw pact would be disolved"