For those who don’t understand, in a weird coincidence, both Donald Trump and Mikhail Gorbachev have been Pizza Hut spokesmen that starred in Pizza Hut tv ads in their respective markets.
links to each ad: Trump- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR-RwV-xAY Gorbachev- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw
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.
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.
The Soviet Union wasn’t capitalist when it collapsed, and the current Russia isn’t communist. China is communist but in name only.
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.