I do eulogize about #Lee #Kuan #Yew from time to time when one needs to seek guidance from a role model.
When asked why didn't #China collapse like the #USSR.
His reply was that the former didn't embrace #glasnost and #perestroika together like the latter did, and paid the price.
When asked why didn't #China collapse like the #USSR.
His reply was that the former didn't embrace #glasnost and #perestroika together like the latter did, and paid the price.
Perestroika(Restructuring) began with the Open policy in China under #Deng Xiao Peng.
Gorbachev gets all the wrong credit for its introduction in the East.
Yes, Glasnost (Openness) was a Soviet attempt to embrace human freedoms.
The Soviet Masses were shocked by it.
Chaos ensued.
Gorbachev gets all the wrong credit for its introduction in the East.
Yes, Glasnost (Openness) was a Soviet attempt to embrace human freedoms.
The Soviet Masses were shocked by it.
Chaos ensued.
Good documentaries.
Brings back my childhood memories.
Brings back my childhood memories.
Actually, people don't get shocked.
It's the closed systems that react absurdly and violently when they are shocked
#Petrification #Phobia is inbuilt into the human psyche, through indoctrination which gets passed onto institutions & systems that are used for executing governance
It's the closed systems that react absurdly and violently when they are shocked
#Petrification #Phobia is inbuilt into the human psyche, through indoctrination which gets passed onto institutions & systems that are used for executing governance
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