[Askel5]

Just as I do not in any way equate "Americans" with the U.S. Federal Government career "public servants" ... I do not equate Russians with the "former Soviets" or whatever label you wish to slap on the unbroken collective of leadership that runs their country and -- since perestroika -- nearly all of their "private industry".

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I do not equate Russians with the "former Soviets" or whatever label you wish to slap on the unbroken collective of leadership that runs their country and -- since perestroika -- nearly all of their "private industry".

Gee, one of those 'the collapse of the Soviet Union is just a conspiracy to confuse us, and nothing has really changed' tin foil guys. I think even the Birch society has given up on this one. But what are you going to say to someone who thinks that our government is no more representative than the old Soviet Union.