Re: [OT] Empires

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From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Empires
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> The question here is: is the Soviet union's era an apt comparison to
> the Roman empire ? Or should we rather compare Russia throughout its
> history - at least from Ivan the Terrible, if not earlier - with the
> Roman empire ? 
> Rome, too, had its civil wars, revolutions and violent changes of
> govcernment. If you compare the communists with a single Roman
dynasty,
> their 70 years survival doesn't look too bad. And the whole history of
> Russia isn't that much shorter than Rome's. Plus, Russia is still
> holding together, even if it is in a bad shape.
> 
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz

"Two Romes have fallen.
The third, Moscow, stands.
There shall be no fourth Rome!"

Ivan the Terrible, in the old film

Rob Paul