Monday 31 December 2018

The Disintegartion Of The Soviet Union

"In those dark days, when even persons of goodwill were soul-burdened with the malign aetheric resonances of hatred, fear and suffering, there were many people in the United States who watched the disintegration of the Soviet Union with righteous triumphalism: the godless Commies had finally got what was coming to them."
-Julian May, Intervention (London, 1988), 17, p. 549.

Intervention is copyright Julian May 1987. Chapter 17 is set in 2007.

Robert Heinlein had the first rocket to the Moon in 1978 as far as I can remember without going upstairs to check. Fortunately, World War III did not happen in the twentieth century but all those weapons still exist. Current affairs and future histories interpenetrate.
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  1. Sean M. Brooks6 January 2019 at 23:41

    Kaor, Paul!

    And the current dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, resents that disintegration of the USSR--and has been trying to grab back as many of the lost territories as possible. That unlucky land is still a despotism, albeit more an old fashioned kind minus the failed Marxism/Leninism.

    Sean

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