• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOP
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    19 hours ago

    Children had to prostitute themselves for food because of that man. Nice person my fucking ass. I wish hell was real. His disposition was more pleasant than Trump but the choices he made were often just as devastating.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m sure Gorbachev was far from perfect, but nobody foresaw how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union would have been, or that it would have collapsed at all. The “shock therapy” that happened post-Soviet Union was long after he’s gone.

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        4 hours ago

        nobody foresaw how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union would have been

        Nobody but communist theory, and the people who pushed for it.

        It was naked capitalism and it’s what the world is going to experience once China and Russia are gone.

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          The Soviet Union wasn’t capitalist when it collapsed, and the current Russia isn’t communist. China is communist but in name only.

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            3 hours ago

            What was bad about the collapse? The dissolution of the USSR itself? I had assumed it was the economic struggle during and after the transition to capitalism.