I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
Too much ink spilled on this, better answer letting the us decide world trade was gonna be done with dollars was dumb, not countering the cia in the 40's after the war sealed the deal they would have had to do what China is doing now, to survive they also would have to do things that destroy the country to keep it going. Like just doing a massive class war in the us instead of turtling for 50 years.