05-16-2016, 09:13 AM
(05-16-2016, 01:14 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Russia's generational cycle is off set by about 20 years and has been for a long time. They should be having a 2T sometime in the 2030s if not late 2020s.
But the Great Patriotic War forced Russia back on the timeline of many other countries that participated heavily in World War II -- the USA, Britain, German, Japan, Italy, France, Poland, Greece, India, and to some extent China (the Communist takeover in 1949 ended a very long and nasty Crisis Era in China that may have begun with the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911).
Crisis Eras can be protracted just as they can be shortened (American Civil War).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.