Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lots of shows about The USSR in The 80s, typically written decades later, when we need to tell ourselves that the collapse was coming because the wheels were coming off.

    Bingo.

    Even as late as 1985-86, while there were certain foundational problems in the USSR daily life was pretty OK. All the stuff about shortages and breadlines were mostly concurrent with the market reforms instituted by our dearly departed Gorby. But the propaganda did it's job, every single American is 100% convinced the USSR collapsed because communism is some inherently unstable system that is destined to collapse; and they will not be convinced otherwise because they obviously know more about it than you, you tankie.