I prefer to believe external sources and internal subversion took down the USSR. Yes there were steps in the process. But steps that need to be countered fast are all in DC . 2010 will be telling if we are to survive at all........
Couldn't agree more; which is why I believe the same is happening to us.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Few juicy parts from it:
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
In the failing Soviet Union there were lines of people waiting to buy bread that didn't exist. Nobody had the authority to create bread or its components.
Here in the U.S. a person could collect enough aluminum cans to buy a loaf of bread in probably a couple of hours and every supermarket has shelves loaded with bread.
I can't see how external sources or internal subversion can explain the lack of bread in the Soviet Union. The explanation is that individual responsibility and individual gain were outlawed. Without them, there is no bread.