1. You are a citizen working in a factory.

  2. You are the General Secretary.

What would you have done from both these perspectives?

  • weshallovercum [any]
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    4 years ago

    The Soviet Union didn't collapse due to "loss of faith in ideology", it was straight up dismantled by opportunists.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      The opportunists got their opportunity to dismantle the union because the ideological coherence and faith was deeply shaken in many sectors of the Party and some sectors of society by the mid 80s, a phenomenon that started with Khrushchev's secret speech. It's why Gorbachev had the political capital to take the Union in a revisionist, capitalist direction.