Comments by "DasBubba" (@dasbubba841) on "Russia's Geography Problem" video.

  1. The Soviet Union was doomed to fail from the start.
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  2. Socialism is a failure because it contradicts human nature. The Soviet Union was not "deliberately" destroyed, but instead fell on it's face due to it's own inefficiency. By the end of the Cold War, the US was rapidly outpacing the USSR in economic and technological development. There were rampant shortages, goods were of inferior quality, and the war in Afghanistan was proving draining. Nationalist sentiments were rising, and eventually, Gorbachev put it down. If it was so successful, it wouldn't have been deliberately destroyed. Socialism is a failure, as seen in Venezuela. Hyperinflation, massive shortages, an oppressive government.
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  3. What about the unmarked men walking around with Russian weaponry?
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  4. What about Chechnya? They don't like Russia, so does that mean they should be given independence.
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  5. It is an independent state. That's like saying Canada should belong to the US, because it's pretty much the same culture with "minor" variations.
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  6. Ukrainians speak Russian because the state was once apart of the USSR, where Russian was highly encouraged. Canadians speak the same language as Americans (not counting Quebec) and were born from the same Empire: the British. Thus, one could argue that Canada is foreign invention (The British pretty much protected them) and should have been absorbed by the United States. Or, perhaps the Dutch belong to Germany, because they speak a similar language. Ukraine is similar to Russia, but is different as well. They are sister cultures, along with Belorussian. But, the key word is "sister". Ukrainian is a separate culture with their own independent nation.
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  7. Yes, the Soviet Union had done some good. It brought a backward, agricultural nation that was heavily impoverished and turned it into a superpower. I won't deny that. Still, it was going to fail. The core tenants of Communism goes against human nature. It allowed for people like Stalin to get into power and turn it into a dictator-state. Every communist country has ended up like this. Communism does not equate to freedom of speech. The Soviet Union did oppress people. The Eastern bloc, for example. Why do you think they were so quick to throw off communism when they saw Soviet power weakening? By the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was in decline. You cannot deny that. If it wasn't, it wouldn't have fallen. It was weighed down by a bloated bureaucracy, as you mentioned, and it's failure of an economic system. If you lived in the Soviet times, you'd know there were massive shortages. Goods were of an inferior quality. The United States was outpacing the Soviet Union rapidly. The Soviet Union spent large amounts of money on it's military, to try to keep up with NATO. NATO was by the end, stronger than Warsaw Pact. After the fall, the problems came from the corrupt government. I do know what happened after the USSR fell to pieces. You can blame those problems on corrupt, ineffective Yeltsin. Other countries did not suffer the same effects Russia did. Poland, for example.
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