The latest Starkwire post shows that the Soviet Union exists in 2030. Now, did the Russian Federation collapse at some point, or in the world of TIA did the USSR never dissolve?

Given real-life Russia's tenuous grasp on democracy, regressing back into authoritarianism isn't that implausible.

Am I investigating too closely, or is this a "patience, all will be revealed" thing?

- Zatch

>Am I investigating too closely, or is this a "patience, all will be
>revealed" thing?

It's not likely to be all that important?

But the assumption is that the USSR managed to weather the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and evolve into a more streamlined form of communism/socialism with a market economy - essentially what Gorbachev tried, but failed, to accomplish with his reforms in the real world.

Thus, the USSR in the world of The Iron Age is authoritarian, but not entirely totalitarian, and has a fairly robust economy. They've ramped back some on that "inevitable international march of Communism" thing, too. In 2032 the Soviet Union is considered a fairly decent neighbor.

(This is largely how the world stood in Neon Exodus Evangelion, too, USSR-wise. I can't explain my odd fascination with the Soviet Union and what it might have become... it's just there and I have to play with it sometimes.)

Also, just for the record, Ben Stark's sixth favorite international city is Ulan Bator. They just don't make yakburgers like that anywhere else in the world.

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>Also, just for the record, Ben Stark's sixth favorite
>international city is Ulan Bator. They just don't make yakburgers
>like that anywhere else in the world.

I would assume that they don't make yakbugers like that much of anywhere else either.

>>Also, just for the record, Ben Stark's sixth favorite
>>international city is Ulan Bator. They just don't make yakburgers
>>like that anywhere else in the world.
>
>I would assume that they don't make yakbugers like that much of
>anywhere else either.

Are you kidding? There are yakburger stands on practically every street corner in some parts of New York. American yak just isn't as flavorful, though. It's because they're raised on automated farms...

--G.
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Yak.. the other red meat...

"Frying Yak Productions, purveyors of the finest yakburgers in the United States..."

Peter Eng
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>"Frying Yak Productions, purveyors of the finest yakburgers in the
>United States..."

"This had better be free-range yak, pal."

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LAST EDITED ON Jan-25-06 AT 11:15 PM (EST) by Ardaniel (moderator)
 
>But the assumption is that the USSR managed to weather the collapse of
>the Warsaw Pact and evolve into a more streamlined form of
>communism/socialism with a market economy - essentially what Gorbachev
>tried, but failed, to accomplish with his reforms in the real world.

A'ight, cool. It's just that, as a Poli Sci major, I can't help but delve into these things

(Excessive quoting is not your friend. Try to keep your replies trimmed down to the least amount of quotation possible. Thanks! --ard)

> I can't explain my odd fascination with the Soviet Union and what it might have become... it's just there and I have to play with it sometimes.

Have you ever read "The Red Star"?