Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "What Happened to The Eastern Bloc After Soviet Collapse? | Animated History" video.

  1. Its fall was every bit as remarkable as its rise.
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  2. Yeah! A return to empty shelves, housing with no basic utilities, living in constant fear of getting told on, by your neighbors to the authorities, etc.
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  3.  @utvm6748  All bad. None good.
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  4.  @aAverageFan  Tell that to Ethiopia. A pro-West Selassie overthrown by Soviet (Russian)-backed Mengistu who went on to make Ethiopia the poster boy for African famine. And also Somalia with its democratically elected government overthrown by Soviet(Russian)-backed Barre.
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  5. Ceausescu had plenty of blood on his hands and had it coming.
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  6. North Korea and Laos due to Chinese handouts.
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  7.  @Nothing_to_write0  Except Western tankies, regime beneficiaries and those who didn't know any better.
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  8. And who knew that the USSR, a country with plenty of natural resources, had to rely on foreign aid just to feed itself because the communist model just wasn't efficient?
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  9.  @ericm.8110  Ukraine, Japan, Afghanistan and Finland would like a word with you.
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  10.  @ericm.8110  <At this point Afghanistan was a communist ally and asked the Soviet Union for help.> That interestingly even the Soviet Union didn't recognize as legitimate. <attacks on ethnic Russians,> Payback for the Holodomor which saw some 7 million ethnic Ukrainians starve to death along with the 1 million ethnic Kazakhs in Kazakhstan who met similar fate.
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  11.  @jackh3242  Meh. Socialism does a much better job of undercutting itself. If anything, the CIA was just adding the final blow.
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  12. LMAO.
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  13.  @joedatius  <the only forms of communism that are even "agued" about now are forms that have no actual connection to Soviet twisted communism > Which went to be failures all the same. <that was already a fake bastardization created from Stalin seizing power.> Lenin was every bit a brutal as Stalin.
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  14.  @Admin-gm3lc  Wasn't Russia self-reliant? Why should they have gotten the same economic help and integration?
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  15. LOL. But no freedom much less a functional economy. Even African slaves in the US had free housing, food and education.
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  16.  @thefirstkingdogo1126  Just it did with Lithuania.
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  17. Better than being a Russian puppet state.
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  18. The younger ones regretting the fall of communism weren't even born yet when Ceausescu got ousted and the older ones either used to work for or received favors from Ceausescu.
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  19. Kind of like how Libya collapsed after Gaddafi died.
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  20. LOL.
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  21.  @ducksareurlords3782  Not anymore. He just died yesterday.
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  22.  @GreyTrav_4735  Either way, the Soviet Union had to rely on outside aid just to support itself.
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