[Peakoil] The collapse of the USSR as a foretaste of collapse in the USA?

[Keith Thomas]

If the end of cheap oil precipitates or coincides with an economic  
collapse, what will it look like?

Dmitry Orlov visited the USSR during and after its collapse and remarks  
on the parallels between the USSR then and the USA today.

Here are the notes from his address in April 2006 in New York:

http://www.cluborlov.com/ClubOrlov/ConfSlides/index.html

If you want more detail, there are long articles on the From the  
Wilderness site, but this site is expected to close or be reduced in  
size shortly, so catch them now while they are still available in their  
full form:

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060105_soviet_lessons.shtml
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/ 
062805_soviet_lessons_part2.shtml
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/ 
071805_soviet_lessons_part3.shtml

Be sure to get the three articles (about 15,600 words). They are  
nowhere else on the web..
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Keith Thomas
www.evfit.com
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