USSR Collapse
The cluster discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, including its causes, rapid downfall, aftermath in Russia and Eastern Europe, Western involvement, and comparisons to other regimes or modern events.
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Soviet undermining for things that happened... after the fall of the USSR? What?
Can you help me understand how USSR collapses because of “toxic mindset”?
You are spot on with the collapse of the USSR.See https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121178/ev...
You should be asking what happened to the USSR in the early 1990s.
The Soviet Union fell, among other things.
I thought this went out when the USSR fell?
In 1991, when Soviet Union collapsed and some parts of it had finally a lucky chance to go their own way, there was a lot of western "experts" who lectured new countries how complex their past was, how Soviet past should be also respected and shouldn't be handwaved away etc. It actually continued decades until very recently – Bucha happened.
The difference is that by late 1980s there were few true believers.This was one of the striking things about the collapse of the USSR, former KGB, the supposed final bastion of defence of the Soviet system, became hyper-capitalist oligarchs overnight seemingly without skipping a beat. We see the same thing happening where the one-time stronghold of enlightenment and liberalism doesn't believe in it either.What's also strange is that there are many people in the US with liv
There's a reason why the Soviet Union collapsed and China liberalized their economy
The Soviet Union went down pretty fast