’n Begrafnisondernemer is nooit ‘cool’ nie

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’n Begrafnisondernemer is nooit ‘cool’ nie

Wat het Michail Gorbatsjof, FW de Klerk, Joe Biden en Cyril Ramaphosa gemeen? KOOS KOMBUIS sit dit mooi netjies uiteen.

1985 WAS die begin van die einde van Kommunisme in Rusland. Dit was die jaar toe Michail Gorbatsjof hoof van die Kommunistiese Party geword het.

In daardie jaar was die Kommunistiese Party reeds diep in die moeilikheid. Martin McCauley en Dominic Lieven stel dit só in Encyclopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/The-Gorbachev-era-perestroika-and-glasnost/):

“When Brezhnev (https://www.britannica.com/place/Naberezhnye-Chelny) died in 1982, most elite groups understood that the Soviet economy was in trouble. Due to senility, Brezhnev had not been in effective control of the country (https://www.britannica.com/topic/nation-state)during his last few years, and Kosygin had died in 1980. The Politburo was dominated by old men …”..

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