Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I think things went wrong when the USSR was dissolved and public property was sold off too fast and too cheaply.
"Public property" in USSR meant property of the small group of dictators, and "selling it off" was one of the greatest things that were to be done.

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post

What do you think about the approach that Belarus took (Lukashenka's idiosynchrasies aside...)? Did they do anything "right" that Russia and Ukraine could have done? Or do you think it's too oppressive and old-style socialism there?
Belarus didn't ever take that "approach". The H-Hour is coming up and I hope after it the real "takers" will meet what they deserve.