Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out […]
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USSR collapsed. It was a shot in socialism, which never succeeded and bears many valuable lessons.
Cleopatra’s nose and butterfly
When I traveled to the western Europe the first few times, I had the bitter feeling of not being able to answer this question: why they lived so much better than we did? I could not accept the simple “because they are smarter” or “because they work better” or “because their government less corrupt”. I […]
Nobel lecture of Svetlana Alexievich
“I lived in a country where dying was taught to us from childhood. We were taught death. We were told that human beings exist in order to give everything they have, to burn out, to sacrifice themselves. We were taught to love people with weapons. Had I grown up in a different country, I couldn’t […]
How was it to live in the Soviet Union just after it had collapsed
The USSR disappeared legally in December, 1991. But it was dying for quite some time before and after that date. Not quite as long as Rome did, but it was not an overnight event either. I think we started to feel it soon after Gorbachev introduced his “reforms”. We did not know about the country’s […]
