After the End of History
10 o'clock, May 19, 2003
Ken Macleod has updated 1066 and All That to cover the Reagan-Gorbachev 80s and the brief decade or so of the New World Order, with hilarious results.
The second thing Gorbachev did was to introduce Russia to the market. The problem was that Russia did not have bourgeois civility, so after it was introduced to the market it did not know what to say to it. Instead it stood about with its hands in its pockets, until it found that its pockets were empty. Its pockets had been picked by the Russian Mafia, which is just like the Sicilian one, except it is not Roman Catholic so does not have a Godfather at its head. Instead it has Ministers, like Protestants.
I can’t link to the actual entry — or rather, I can, but something bad seems to be happening to Blogspot’s archives, so you may have to start at the top.
I can't even get into his regular site. The DNS Eight Ball is coming back, "Try again later."
Ah well. And so I shall.