The USSR deserved to live. There are so many things that I wish had never happened, like the entire year 1989 for instance, or New Years Day 1992 – when the moneymen came and took everything. God damn why did it have to end like that? A bunch of backroom deals by mafia-sponsored yes men – choking and strangling a dream seventy years in the making – and the motherland that had smashed Hitler was nothing more than a memory. What if Lenin, dead drunk from drearyhead, had stumbled from his tomb on that fatal day and said “WAIT...don’t do it” – would anyone have listened? Could two decades of misery, meltdown, decay and terror have been avoided? Even better, he could have dragged Boris Yeltsin down into his tomb and ate him up – though I doubt his liquor filled carcass would have tasted all that good.
