Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
and the world does and should not miss it. But that was only half the problem. Old communist Russia, communist China to go.
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The Bolshevik empire collapsed in 1989. Gorbachev tried to trick 15 independent states into a new, ‘more democratic’ version of the Bolshevik empire. Of course nobody wanted it. In 1989–1991, salaries in the three most important cities — Miensk, Kyiv, and Moscow — were around 25–30 USD; it was a Nigerian or Upper Volta–level salary. And look: the colonial subjects didn’t want to be part of the Moscow empire — they all wanted independence.![]()
Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
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and the world does and should not miss it. But that was only half the problem. Old communist Russia, communist China to go.
Many Western commentators here don’t understand the nature of a Mongol empire (ulus). A Mongol (Bolshevik empire was a Mongol ulus) empire can exist only as long as it expands.Communism gets a lot of stuff wrong, but on this point Marx was spot-on.
He predicted the end stage of communism would be the withering away of the state. Turned out he was correct!![]()
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
and the world does and should not miss it. But that was only half the problem. Old communist Russia, communist China to go.