I've seen many people on this site talk about how if Andropov lived longer he could have prevented the collapse of the USSR or at least increased its odds of survival. I'm curious as to what his reforms were that people here mention.

  • Vncredleader
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    2 years ago

    The only misgiving I have in any of that is the idea of trying out what was done in Yugoslavia given how internally tumultuous that economy was, being held up by debts for decades

    • baguettePants [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yugoslavia’s debt is an overblown issue. Most of the individual republics are now several times more indebted, then all of them together were, in Yugoslavia, but suddenly it doesn’t matter because they did the neoliberalism.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Yep, debt has always been a political issue rather than an economic one

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Being more indebted now doesn't really change the fact that the Yugoslav system was flawed . And with that last point, yeah that's why you are never gonna win taking out loans unless you are a neoliberal country. A leftist project will only get screwed over by that shit