| Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com It was the fifth generation who ended Communist rule in the former Soviet Union. Analysis said that the Soviet Union fell because it became morally and culturally weak. As China prepares for its fifth generation, widespread moral decline has long plagued China,"according to both ordinary and prominent Chinese,"the article reads. New York Times (NY Times) said that the precursor of collapse has shown up in China just like that of the former Soviet Union. "Are we looking at the end game?" the article asks. Do Communist states, perhaps, have a natural lifespan as NY Times said? Here is what experts say. Will communism come to an end at the fifth generation? On May 25, NY Times published an article entitled, "As China Marches Ahead, Is It On Solid Ground?" The author, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, compares Chinese society with that of the Soviet Union before its break-up, and questions if we are looking at the end game of Chinese Communism. The author also cited Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute. In an essay published in Foreign Policy magazine last year, Leon argued that the Soviet Union didn't fall because it was economically weakened, despite its profound challenges in that realm. Nor was the Soviets' war in Afghanistan the death knell, though it was a burden. "The Soviet Union fell because it was morally and culturally weakened," Mr. Aron stated to the NY Times. The NY Times article also said that ... |
