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Did lasting differences between Russian institutions and political culture vs western norms make the establishment of genuine liberal democracy (no, not Zhirinovsky) a longshot with a POD range opening on December 26, 1991, or did it have a real chance derailed by Yeltsin's incompetence, the deleterious effects of shock therapy, and other preventable factors? At the moment of the dissolution of the Soviet union, what were the realistic prospects for the creation of liberal democracy in Russia?
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