Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "How and Why Did The Soviet Union Collapse" video.

  1. That's because all the homeless in the USSR were either jailed or dead.
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  2. But Mongolia was built by the USSR.
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  3. Not exactly. Lenin was every bit a POS that Stalin was. It's just that he didn't live long enough to carry out his tyranny further. The USSR still would have been badly off.
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  4. Chernobyl was a PR disaster for the Soviet government.
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  5.  @exoels  Thanks to capitalist reforms undertaken by Deng.
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  6. When China cuts off the aid.
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  7. It figures when he was part of the ruling class.
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  8. Communist China adopted capitalist reforms. North Korea is on life-support living off of Chinese aid. Ditto for Laos. Vietnam? See China. Cuba? US remittances and food aid. So much for sanctions holding it back.
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  9. Communism = anti-God, anti-family, anti-individuality/individual
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  10. I was 11 when the USSR collapsed.
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  11.  @treebeardtheent2200  Thanks to government meddling in the form of rent control and lopsided tenancy laws in favor of tenants.
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  12. It failed because it needed free-market capitalism to sustain itself.
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  13.  @thatweatherman4411  Yes. With charities.
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  14.  @thatweatherman4411  I don't need to name them. You're free to establish one and help the poor at your own expense.
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