?????????....Sorry Mike ,the observation is quite shallow ....better you consider it as your glance !..you ignored the humongous differences Ethiopia and the then USSR have !....I know you could have seen it better refined ! ....Otherwise as a free thinking, in search of a governing thought form to understand our contemporary political situation , your speech is heavier than air ! ....Given the contemporary situation of our mind set, thinking is not in favor of our good will......We need more silence and deeper prayer.....wasteful thinking is everywhere !....Identifying one self with various arbitrary thoughts are killing us ......!....We need to be aware !....and awareness is not a matter of the mind !......By thinking, we model reality in to countless forms and further more divide in to many identities ; form is not essence, ....sadly ,by Any thinking ,we do not reach at the truth that set us free from the burden we are suffering from these days......Only false and momentary consolation prevails out of our contemporary wild opinions !.......where there is rarely a conscious elite,.....wild opinions fill the mouth of many !.....this is what is prevailing !....we do not need thinking ,we need love and compassion.....!