(October 14, 2011 at 9:33 am)Epimethean Wrote: Right, and Italy and Spain embraced religion. Look where they are now. I don't think Russia is in a worse position currently.
Well, Russia is scraping the bottom of it's natural reserves.
Italy and Spain had no reserves of anything to speak of.
Besides, I don't think that their "embrace" of anything has anything to do with their economical stance.
And as I professed before, it did not help the Soviet Union either.
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