Family Medicine & Primary Health Care in The New Millennium

Abstract

The collapse of Romania in 1988 under Nikolau Caucesku was rapidly followed by the fall of the mighty Soviet Union. lt is worth noting that Romanian Stalinism desoite its weaknesses survived all of those years because ofWestern support in the cold war against the Soviet Union. It was during this period that the leaders of Apartheid South Africa began to realise that they either had to "adapt or die". Clearly PW Botha and his advisors had not learnt the lessons of Romania and Persia ten years back and now Romania. ln 1979 the West abandoned the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeni toppled him. The point and lesson from these whirlwind events is that adaptation is a poor response in the development of history. Change and adaptation would have been the correct resPonse.