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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... one after the other left Mother Russia's fold in the early 1990s back into the Union - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. He started with Georgia in 2008, doing it now in Ukraine, tomorrow... ??? I don't think he even blinked at the Russian stock ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... necessities but of their advantages." The collapse of the centrally planned socialist economies of the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) in the late 1980s proved that capitalism's laissez faire policy works. Now we have two Frenchmen suggesting ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania. Yugoslavia broke up into separate states. So did the mighty United Soviet Socialist Republic. The enemy of the era was communism. It failed to live up to the better life their comrades at the politburo promised. And ...
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