So where was Gorbachev in all this, playing chess?

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

That's rightz, same as Obama!

Thanks, Gorby, for being slightly less meglamaniacal than the previous Soviet dictators and being naive enough to think a communist police state could co-exist with freedom of speech and thought.

I wouldn't be so condescending as Cuba is still communist country and a thorn in side for the US, and lets not even mention Cina a communist state by any definition, and no the "liberal" economic system doesn't make Cina the land of the free. Are the Cinese leaders being naive enough to think a police state can co-exist with a liberal economic system ? It works well enough for them though.