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TODAY, our Western partners seem ready to take into account the lessons of Iraq where the ruling Baath party and the army were disbanded during American occupation leaving the ungovernable country. History knows no examples of successful "regime change": disintegration of all (including law and order) structures of state governance is inevitable. Successful "regime change" is a utopia; those who think differently are indulging in dangerous fantasies the price of which is unacceptably high. In the history of Russia abdication of Nicholas II and the Romanov dynasty in 1917 marked the point of non-return. The law and order structures were relieved from the oath of allegiance, disintegration began. European history has its own periods of lawlessness and disorder. Not subjected to large-scale purges the law and order structures remained disoriented; they ceased to exist; the effects are easy to guess: the state was left defenseless in the face of internal and external threats.
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