And male hispanic expectancy dropped MORE than Russian male expectancy did in 1992-3

Dems, November 2022: damn why are so many latin voters turning reactionary? I guess they're bad racist people.

  • Gosplan14 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Gorbachev's Market Reforms provided the material conditions for Yeltsin to take power though and do his thing.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        he’s got just as much if not more blood than Kissinger on his hands.

        Let's not get carried away here.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Gorbachev at least thought he was doing the right thing that would preserve the USSR and pave the way for continuing to develop socialism in the soviet union. Frankly I think people overestimate Gorbachev's role in the collapse, someone else would have done the same thing under the conditions the union was under in 1986. The system was already deteriorating anyway under Brezhnev and his successor Andropov.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        4 years ago

        Gorbachev was more just shit at his job than actively malicious but people love to shit on him lol

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Wasn't he in the Pizza Hut commerical because he was broke and they offered him a decent chunk of change?

          • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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            4 years ago

            It was also sort of a political ad for him to promote the new market economy, but I 100% agree that it is hilariously pathetic that the General Secretary if the Soviet Union had to shill out for shitty pizza

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        From the little I know, Andropov was actually kinda like the good version of Gorbachev but he had very little time before he died.

        • gammison [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          IIRC, he started some party reforms which were good but his economic policy was mixed/not developed enough before he died to say much about.