Look at post-Soviet states generally. Their services and guarantees were stripped, undemocratically, virtually overnight. The rapid reintroduction of raw capitalism was overtly monstrous and killed more people in the region than WWII, but it was social murder so the West doesn’t care.
If socialism "failed" so hard, why did quality of life in the USSR only deteriorate so dramatically following the illegal dissolution of the union and capitalist restoration? If capitalism is such a good system, quality of life should improve, not crash.
Yeah it's a great example for that reason, and also for explaining imperialism. The former Soviet Union got the imperial periphery treatment, not the core treatment.
If socialism "failed" so hard, why did quality of life in the USSR only deteriorate so dramatically following the illegal dissolution of the union and capitalist restoration? If capitalism is such a good system, quality of life should improve, not crash.
Yeah it's a great example for that reason, and also for explaining imperialism. The former Soviet Union got the imperial periphery treatment, not the core treatment.