What Happened To The Soviet Union Happened

The Social Model Of The Bolsheviks Failed, As Will Any Model That Denies Individual Rights, Intellectual Freedom, And Freedom Of Competing Political Parties. Without These Freedoms And Rights, There Is No Motivation For People To Work. Such A System Cannot Be Sustained, Especially In Light Of The Technological Revolution Of The Information Era.

Globalization Was Supposed To Break Down Barriers Between Continents And Bring All Peoples Together. But What Kind Of Globalization Do We Have With Over One Billion People On The Planet Not Having Safe Water To Drink?

We Must Speak More Clearly About Sexuality, Contraception, About Abortion, About Values That Control Population, Because The Ecological Crisis, In Short, Is The Population Crisis. Cut The Population By 90% And There Aren't Enough People Left To Do A Great Deal Of Ecological Damage.

Sometimes Its Difficult To Accept, To Recognise Ones Own Mistakes, But One Must Do It. I Was Guilty Of Overconfidence And Arrogance, And I Was Punished For That.

We Could Still Have Continued The Arms Race, But The Arms Race Was Pointless, And It Was Another Reason We Decided To Start Perestroika. It Was Senseless To Continue To Accumulate Weapons. We Had Enough Weapons To Destroy Life On Earth 1,000 Times, And Therefore It Was Very Clear To Us That The Arms Race Could Spiral Out Of Control. A Conflict Could Have Started, As Both The Americans And The Soviets Realized, Not Out Of A Wrong Political Decision But Because Of A Failure In The Command-and-control Systems.