The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
SHOES THROWER
"The Collapse Gap"
Audio Interview - Guns and Butter
"The Collapse Gap" with Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse - The
Soviet Example and American Prospects". Dmitry Orlov's repeated travels to
Russia throughout the early nineties allowed him to observe the aftermath of
the Soviet collapse first-hand. Being both a Russian and an American, Dmitry
was able to appreciate both the differences and the similarities between the
two superpowers. Eventually he came to the conclusion that the United States
is going the way of the Soviet Union. His emphasis is on all the things that
can still be made to work, and he advocates simply ignoring all that will
fall by the wayside.
Closing the 'Collapse Gap'
The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
By Dmitry Orlov
A lecture by Dmitry Orlov
First Published Dec 4 2006 by Energy Bulletin -- Good evening, ladies and
gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an
eye-witness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my
observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide
just how urgent a message it is.
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the
United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union,
prior to its collapse. The rhetorical device I am going to use is the
"Collapse Gap" - to go along with the Nuclear Gap, and the Space Gap, and
various other superpower gaps that were fashionable during the Cold War.