• plyth@feddit.org
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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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      3 hours ago

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

      • plyth@feddit.org
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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.