(Archived document, may contain errors) 171 March 10, 1982 IS THE SOVIET GAS PIPEUNE ASTEEL NOOSE INTRODUCTION In one of Lenin's more familiar quotes, he boasted that capitalists would sell him the rope with which to hang themselves.
Regimes that are built on ideology are doomed to fail. The greatest example in modern history is the Soviet Union. Not having a fixed ideology means a country is flexible enough to capture and answer the needs of society. In ideological regimes, the society is modeled to fit the dogma. This is not sustainable. It failed in the Soviet Union and today we see it failing in Iran.