Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "Gorbachev gave Russians freedom. They rejected it." video.

  1. I always used to hear the USSR's collapse described as "sudden". That is the uninformed Western perspective. The reality is the USSR's death was slow and agonising. I see some parallels in the slow death of neoliberal capitalism currently taking place in Western Europe. If the Brezhnev Stagnation was the beginning of the end, it took nearly two decades longer for the USSR to die for good. The global financial crisis began in 2008...
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