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  1.  @Krolmir96  It sure beats being a Soviet puppet. Notice how many Soviet puppet states never recovered once the Soviet Union stopped supporting them? Cuba? Somalia? Ethiopia? Mongolia? North Korea? East Germany?
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  2. But Spain lost the war to the USA and the Philippines was one of its spoils.
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  3. The road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
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  4. Also Brazil was a Nazi refuge which explains why there are so many Germans.
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  5.  @mitchellb3820  The Dutch hardly had anything to do with Africa besides South Africa. Africa's main colonizers were England and France.
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  6. And Angolans.
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  7. Also Gorbachev refused to enforce the Brezhnev doctrine and instead let the vassal states go their own way.
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  8. LOL. No. People loved each other, because they were threatened with jail if they didn't.
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  9. Maybe so, but the internal turmoil and dysfunction made all that possible. Ultimately, Yugoslavia has mostly itself to blame for why it collapsed.
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  10. Pretty much.
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  11.  @anthonyp9591  Socialism/communism and authoritarianism go hand in hand.
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  12. Yugoslavia was a personality cult. Once the leader falls, the country falls with him/her.
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  13. Yes it was.
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  14.  @omegawonton8749  Pretty much.
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  15.  @bcnmanhattan5022  Race politics. DC = Black majority. Puerto Rico = Latino majority.
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  16. LOL. If so, then how come whites and mestizos are at the top while blacks and (pure-blooded) Natives are at the bottom in virtually all Latin American countries?
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  17. But it was woefully underpopulated
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  18. <Chernobyl has nothing to do with it at all!> It was a PR disaster for the USSR.
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  19.  @MontenegrinIcon  That nationalism was a consequence of various ethnic groups forced against their will to live together as Yugoslavia was formed at gunpoint.
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  20. Communism earned its hatred.
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  21. In other words, communism can only be sustained by tyranny and brute force.
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  22. Don't forget the Germans.
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  23. Not as much as Europeans themselves. Not everyone wants to live in a Nazi or Soviet empire.
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  24.  @lesteraponte5734  While France is a drain on West Africa.
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  25.  @firecreeper2249  Mayotte has resources?
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  26. Except Nazi Germany. You better thank Canada and England for liberating you from them.
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  27. In other words, Yugoslavia was a personality cult. And once the leader died, the country followed suit.
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  28. <Yugoslavia was very powerful country> Until it ran out of other people's money.
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  29. Which in turn exposed the limitations of the USSR's central planning model and economy.
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  30. Actions speak louder than words. And communism practiced the abolition of private property and the bourgeoisie Marx advocated to the T.
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  31.  @krips22  With a good portion of voters being French mainlanders who just moved in. Kind of like Crimea with its ethnic Russian enclaves.
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  32. Also the Spanish Empire.
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  33.  @brixcosmo  Brazil's so-called inequality is even worse than the US's. <Just like USA. In the last years the civil war mood became more evident. In the last days there were invasions of governmental buildings by the last President's supporters just like when Trump lost.> That's not proof of inequality, but political disenchantment.
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  34. Thank the British for kicking their asses in the Boer War.
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  35.  @dutchpatriot17  Apparently, colonialism is perfectly fine as long as their preferred group is doing the colonizing, not being colonized.
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  36. Mismanagement and corruption.
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  37. No. By running out of other people's (US and Soviet) money and having no strongman to keep the ethnic groups in line after Tito died.
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  38. Nah. Yugoslavia ran out of other people's money. And like Libya, it died with its personality cult-leader.
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  39. Also losing the Afghanistan War while supporting a communist regime even they themselves didn't recognize as legitimate and the failed invasion of Finland.
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  40. And then it fell as fast as it rose. <What failed was the effect of neoliberal interference and theft from the whole population owned public sector to minority held private sector.> LOL. The population didn't own anything. The Politburo elites did.
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  41. It figures why they're still bitter over the US.
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  42. Costa Rica had no problem developing independently of the US.
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  43. Just ask Zimbabwe.
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  44. Taiwan is (South) Florida to China's Cuba.
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  45. No. Gran Colombia collapsed due to corruption and ego.
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  46. Because South America was already fragmented from the greed, ego and personal ambitions of local elites which was why Gran Colombia collapsed in just 12 years.
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  47. No one exploited the peasantry more than the communists themselves.
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  48.  @gavriloprincip3342  Against the will of their neighbors.
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  49. You mean failed to maintain that collectivism at gunpoint. And when the individualists/nationalists saw opportunity to gain independence with help from the West, they seized it.
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  50. Exactly.
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  51. It ran out of other people's money.
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  52. Yes it did. You're giving the US and EU way too much credit.
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  53. OUCH!
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  54.  @kongspeaks4778  Okay, Sergei.
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  55. What greater good?
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  56. But for Gran Colombia, the US didn't have to do much. It came apart on its own.
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  57.  @yahiaaymen7876  Gran Colombia collapsed on its own. It didn't need the US's help in achieving that.
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  58. Even my Marx's own admission.
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  59. Why revolutionaries and freedom-fighters generally suck at running countries and become the very oligarchs and oppressors they fought against.
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  60. LMAO.
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  61. Communism earned its bashing.
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  62. Actually that's a good thing as there are no places that France invaded and colonized that are successful to this day. Not Haiti. Not anywhere West or Central Africa. Not Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam.
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  63. It damaged the USSR, because it had no real backup to compensate for all the revenues lost by the oil price collapse.
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  64.  @tibodeclercq2131  And the results.
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  65. It was a cause. Nations are destroyed from within. Outside interference for Yugoslavia was little more than the final nail in the coffin.
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  66. Just like he was right about Latin America being an ungovernable mess and would remain that way.
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  67.  @azadbangla9611  Tito earned his hatred.
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  68. LOL. Where did you get such a number from? And since when was Brazil Spanish?
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  69.  @helenorsanic7921  I thought he was a Serb. I thought Hitler was Austrian. And I thought Stalin was an ethnic Georgian.
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  70. LOL. The US supplied the USSR with grain when the USSR itself ran into shortages.
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  71. You know that the military accounts for barely 3% of the US's overall GDP, right?
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  72.  @manyulgarprsch  That countries cannot achieve anything without US intervention.
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  73. Especially without outside aid. See Cuba, Laos and North Korea.
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  74. < Some are survive,> Namely the ones that adopted capitalist reforms and now operate as social democracies. < some are perpetually poor.> Chinese client-states like North Korea and Laos.
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  75. Explain East Timor.
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  76. Largely of its own making.
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  77. If it wasn't for EU membership, Spain would be on par with its former Latin American colonies.
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  78. Nope. And the USSR had the most resources of any country that adopted it.
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  79. Just like Spain.
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  80.  ꤾꤳꤰꤻꥃꥅꤹꥆꤶꥄꥂ  And the world is slowly turning into Soviet-era Russia.
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  81.  @draganpavlovic210  But they were punished by having their hard-earned wealth transferred to the underperforming regions of Yugoslavia.
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  82. They're not failed, but definitely inconsequential.
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  83. Apparently, colonialism wasn't just a European thing.
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  84. Like Soviet Russia?
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  85. How so? Islam is monotheistic. Paganism is polytheistic.
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  86. <No wonder some famous international.persons ( Putin?) mentioned, in tones of praise, Xi's ability to unite all ethnic groups in the vast country of China, a country with different religions ( and different sects within each) and different dialects, some even so different in both sounds and in writing ! > By brute force. Because like all collectivist ideals, communism does not value nor respect individual liberty and agency.
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  87. Keep coping!
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  88. OUCH!
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  89. Because Spain lost the war to the US.
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  90. Yet they happily accepted Western aid.
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  91. And rightfully so. They got tired of having their hard-earned wealth taken away to support basket cases.
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  92.  @MaxScooterfan  But the Soviet government lost their credibility with both locals and foreigners.
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  93. Whatever, tankie!
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  94. But it failed.
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  95. People of African descent make up 66% of French Guiana's population.
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  96. Mostly internal issues.
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  97. Japan was an empire unto itself. Just ask the rest of Asia. New Zealand is an ex-British colony.
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  98. LOL
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  99.  @miguelbrito4553  But his own ego killed that plan of a unified Latin America along with the ego of other local leaders.
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  100.  @miguelbrito4553  Nah. He was yet another liberator turned oppressor.
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  101. Because internal corruption and dysfunction did most of the damage.
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  102. But countries are destroyed from the inside with turmoil, decline and regression and corruption. External forces are just a final nail in the coffin.
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  103. How long has the US existed as an independent country?
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  104. Like the Soviets?
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  105. South America is just a rich man's Africa with more or less the same post-colonial leadership consisting of kleptocrats, oligarchs and megalomaniacal revolutionaries.
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  106. That ran out of Soviet and US money.
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  107. But those places were of no real consequence.
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  108. They're just Spanish in name only.
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  109. @Fabio Eduardo As Venezuela is now officially the poorest country in South America.
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  110. Also high crime.
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  111. But it didn't. Gran Colombia collapsed to personal egos.
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  112.  @tarik6990  Due to the beneficiaries and descendants of the old communist guard in charge.
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  113. Namely Albania and other Soviet client states.
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  114. No. Because Gran Colombia's leaders couldn't keep their own egos and personal ambitions in check.
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  115. But was undone by political infighting.
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  116. And self-serving leadership.
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  117.  @HC-wo2tz  But it has been run into the ground by socialists.
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  118. Socialism birthed fascism.
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  119. <Socialism actually helped the ussr become the second strongest power in the world. > And then it fell as fast as it rose. <And the USSR fell because of corruption not communism.> A feature of communism and central planning. <And after the ussr fell there were polls where people overwhelmingly voted that they were much happier in the USSR> Namely regime bootlicks and the illiterate.
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  120. The CIA didn't exist in Bolivar's time.
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  121. And are better off as independent nations.
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  122. 3:30 Sounds like Africa post-Scramble.
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  123. His ego destroyed it.
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  124. Wrong! Simple answer: personal ego and corruption. Gran Colombia imploded on its own.
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  125. <If I had to go to Brazil I would like to visit the South.> Where the Nazis fled to and found refuge.
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  126. USA defeated Britain. Mexico defeated Spain. And Haiti defeated France.
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  127. But the ego of Bolivar and local elites did it in.
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  128.  @vk6832  Interesting!
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  129. Communism is every bit as imperialistic as capitalism is often accused of being.
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  130. <They strongly supported separatist from Slovenia and Croatia.> That happened to be the most prosperous regions in Yugoslavia and got sick of having their hard-earned money taken away to prop up the poorer regions.
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  131. One of the better-off countries in Central America.
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  132. The African descendants who make up 66% of French Guiana's population?
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  133. Yes you can as Ukraine and the Baltics were forcibly annexed into the USSR.
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  134. Pretty much.
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  135. China with factory-workers. North Korea with manual laborers. Cuba with doctors.
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  136. The US had nothing to do with Gran Colombia collapsing. Internal infighting did it in. The leadership couldn't check their egos.
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  137. Exactly.
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  138. And there's even less to be proud of with being colonized. You just saying that, because you came out on the losing end of it being the colonizer's *****.
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  139. They lost it to the British.
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  140. No. The British didn't have to do anything. Gran Colombia self-destructed on its own.
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  141.  @CcsRespira  Sure indeed. Latin America was never known for having its ---- together or leaders that weren't power-hungry egomaniacs.
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  142. How fitting for Portugal to be the 1st to get the Slave Trade off the ground and be the last to abolish it?
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  143. Simple. They were the final nails in the coffin for a collapsing regime.
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  144.  @bcnmanhattan5022  Look at Asia with China, bot South and North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.
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  145. Plus a declining economy.
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  146. LOL. Cuba, a Spanish colony, was one of the last countries in the Americas to abolish slavery.
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  147. LOL.
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  148. With brute force.
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  149. Like Lenin and Stalin.
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  150. LOL. Why? There is not one single successful ex-French colony to date.
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  151. In other words, as Margaret Thatcher once said, it "ran out of other people's money."
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  152. Good riddance.
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  153. Vietnam is an ex-French colony but ditched French for English upon reforming the economy.
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  154.  @paarmenion3635  <Well French Guiana is the wealthiest region of the entire sub-contient> Only because of French subsidies and the Euro being the local currency as it has little going for it besides that space shuttle-launching station.
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  155.  @Freedmoon44  Quebec is not that rich. <while Louisiana can barely be considered french speaking anymore and is one of the worst states of the USA to be in due to New Orleans, its still relatively decent.> Because all of the French have long assimilated. Louisiana is the 2nd poorest state in the continental US.
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  156.  @krips22  <Which former Spanish or British colony are doing great in Africa? (Yes, let's compare what is comparable; besides, South Africa is a very different case, for obvious reasons) > Botswana (ex-British colony). Equatorial Guinea (ex-Spanish colony) = highest GDP per capita in the continent but 75% of the population is poor and is a functional kleptocracy as the ruling Nguema family controls all of the country's wealth.
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  157. Equatorial Guinea may have one of the highest GDP's per capita in Africa, but 75% of the population is poor and is a functional kleptocracy.
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  158. The external factors just the final nail in the coffin. The internal facts did the most damage.
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  159. Just ask Ethiopia.
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  160. Exactly.
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  161. Good question.
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  162. That doesn't work. And Europe was plagued with conflicts despite the nations being ethnically homogeneous.
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  163.  @rn6312  Like it is in diverse Ethiopia?
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  164. Not really. The Soviet system was corrupt beyond redemption to the point that the only way to reform it was destroy it altogether.
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  165. No. Your own dysfunction and mismanagement did you in.
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  166. They have separate autonomous cantons for themselves.
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  167. But it was PR disaster that exposed the USSR to the outside world and locals.
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  168. The supposed phobia is justified.
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  169. LOL. Gran Colombia was never really a threat as it was disorganized and all but already divided.
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  170. Especially without capitalism, foreign aid or tyranny.
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  171. Hardly.
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  172.  @acacius9903  LOL. The Chinese are just doing to Africa what Europe already did just as Mao planned.
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  173. And why most of its former colonies are dysfunctional and enjoy limited prosperity.
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  174. Ego. And some still don't get along with each other due to past wars.
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  175.  @radomirratkovic9014  There is no such thing as benevolent leaders.
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  176. You tankies sure love to give the USA more credit than warranted for the USSR's collapse.
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  177. That fake economy was never sustainable to begin with. Hence the US and Soviet aid.
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  178. Pretty much.
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  179. Exactly.
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  180. Nope.
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  181. UK got out of that business a long time ago. You mean France with its economic control over West Africa with the CFA franc.
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  182.  @nomecreona3829  The USA is a former British colony. Try again!
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  183. It's Asia's Poland.
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  184. Because Donetsk is part of a country that want nothing to do with Russia.
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  185. In other words, Yugoslavia was personality cult.
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  186.  @nicholasmaximus3412  Except "real" communism has been tried. In Somalia after its one-time Soviet-backed puppet got ousted.
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  187.  @nicholasmaximus3412  Pretty much.
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  188. Ceausescu tried that in Romania only to hasten his own demise.
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  189. Fascism is an offspring of socialism.
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  190. Exactly.
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  191. Bolivar was right in his prediction that Latin America would be doomed as a dysfunctional mess.
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  192.  @kerriwilson7732  Exactly.
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  193.  @tajenoorkhan7217  But in terms of GDP per capita, Brazil is below the DR.
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  194. One problem, though. the USA is not among the top 50 in crime, but Brazil has the 7th highest crime rate in the world.
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  195. And then the economy started failing.
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  196. @Fabio Eduardo His own ego and power-lust did him in.
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