The USSR of the 1980s was not the USSR of the 1920s.
Yeltsin's takeover was a fucking nightmare, but the theory that they didn't need a new revolution and some serious house-cleaning requires a seriously rose-colored rear view mirror. Gorbachev should have been evidence enough of that.
Thinking about how Chomsky said the fall of the USSR was good while looking at these graphs
The USSR of the 1980s was not the USSR of the 1920s.
Yeltsin's takeover was a fucking nightmare, but the theory that they didn't need a new revolution and some serious house-cleaning requires a seriously rose-colored rear view mirror. Gorbachev should have been evidence enough of that.
definitely agreed with that.