I tend to think that the USSR falling really bit them in the ass in that every future socialist project ever can point to the disaster that was Russia in the 90's and early 00's and realize hey maybe we don't want freedom
Under Yeltsin's tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels. Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides—they all played a role. David Satter, a senior fellow at the anti-communist, Washington DC-based Hudson Institute, writing in the conservative Wall Street Journal, described the consequences of this victory of Democracy: "Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of 'surplus deaths' in Russia-deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends-was between five and six million persons."
"We need a Chinese version of Yeltsin," - America's security apparatus
"Fuck that shit," - all of China
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I tend to think that the USSR falling really bit them in the ass in that every future socialist project ever can point to the disaster that was Russia in the 90's and early 00's and realize hey maybe we don't want freedom
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TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
Death rate visualized as a line graph. Look at the steep drop-off of the dashed line in 1989.