Re:Get YOUR facts straight!! (Score 1)

My grand father was a White Russian who fled the Comunist take over. I am not anti Russian. I am anti communist. What western investment would have done for Russia would have poured money into the Russian economy. The IMF has not been financing the mafia. Why would market reforms not work in Russia? they are working in Poland, Hungury, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Slovinia. Yes the Latvians do treat the ethnic Russians as second class citizens but they also remember when all those Russians moved in. About 40 years ago in a Soviet plan to make the area more Russian that Latvian. I think they got a right to be pissed off. And I agree that the Russians should ethier cut tie with Russia or go back. If American software engineers are inferior to russian why don't you dominate the software market? Because most don't write software they crack other peoples software. I supose the thief that breacks into the bank is a better man than the one who built it too? I don't hate or fear Russians. In Bosnia we got to know quiet a few but i can tell you thier basic education was no where neer American standards. So you can stick your fingers in your ears and yell "NAA NAA NAA" as loud as you want but the fact still remains that Yeltsin did less to destroy Russia than the Communist have. Comunism does not work we won the cold war accept it. Remember your history lest you be forced to repeat it.