Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Gorbachev's USSR: The Events That Led To The Collapse Of The Soviet Union | M.A.D World | Timeline" video.

  1.  @SiVlog1989  It was NOT possible to reform the Stalinist bureaucracy and Stalin's followers. Gorbachev rose in the bureaucracy because Gorbachev as a child had written the most slavish praise of Stalin as the leader. A leader who had murdered all of Lenin's closet comrades. Stalin the butcher the leader of defeated revolutions and Gorbachev could not overcome what was rotten by restructuring the bureaucracy. Instead what happened is they adopted the neo liberal theories of Milton Freedman who advised on how to bring back capitalism and markets to unleash capitalist prosperity. Instead the only thing unleashed were depression like conditions and new laws making private ownership of property for use in exploitation the law of the land. It was they who became the new corrupt oligarchy and instituted shock therapy.
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  2.  @walterm2618 Bankruptcy is what happens where company takes on debit and then defaults on its payments. The creditors then haul it in to court for reorganizations or dismemberment. A better explanation is to say they entered a period of economic and political crisis. That the roots of the crisis lay in the use of capitalist methods by the Moscow Stalinist bureaucracy to advance its own interests seperate and apart from the masses of working people. The end up going back to a type of capitalism because the bureaucracy was not capable of self reform no new communist leadership was created or developed out of that struggle. Most of the workers still belong to trade unions and many industries remain in state hands
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  3.  @sayeedshah1434  That was when Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter was supporting the landlords terrorist war against the Afghan government. The same type of reactionary forces that would attack the world trade center and provoke the US Imperialists into 20 year war of revenge on Afghanistan killing 100,000 and creating millions of refuges in one of the poorest nations on earth.
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  4. You still face the possibility of nuclear war because capitalism breeds national competition for markets and resources.
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