This December marks the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Over the years, scholars from Russia, China and the West have studied the reasons for the dissolution. What are the most important lessons for today’s China from this event?

Perhaps, in the future, the US will experience what the China did in the late Qing Dynasty and undergo a painful transformation.

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There was no essential change from spirit to structure no matter in the Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation because they are "civilized" with only changes in external expressions.

    :what-the-hell:

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I’m half thinking that some hegelian shit (or maybe confucian?) with spirit imprinting on structure? :meow-tableflip:

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Tbh the thrust of the argument that “cause china is integrated they can’t fall” is true, for the same reason they can’t do communism here today, cause no exploitation will implode their role :deeper-sadness:

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        3 years ago

        I think its basically saying that despite small detail changes in external matters, the core was unchanged from the tsardom to the communist party to the modern russian state.

        If I understand it correctly its basically "red tsar" type shit.