Meanwhile libs on my wall were all celebrating Gorbachev’s 90th birthday earlier this month.
One of them literally said: “he showed courage to admit defeat [...] the world is not as bright as we thought it’d be in 1992, but it’s certainly not as dark as 1984.”
PLEASE. END. THIS. AGONY.
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"I might be unemployed and prostituting myself to feed my children but things are so much brighter now than in 1984! 😍" -Some Russian woman, 1992
he showed courage to admit defeat
Does this dipshit own anything with a Confederate Flag printed on it?
certainly not as dark as 1984
Oh FFS. READ ANOTHER BOOK.
No they are a lib. Like PMC lib. Highest credential possible and prestigious institution and all that. :agony:
Yeltsin literally ordered tanks to fire into the legislative building with the ministers inside when they wouldn't pass his insane decrees, but the US would have your believe he's apparently the Democratic Reformer™ of Russia.
"I support the self-determinism of the Russian people"
"No, not like that"
US: *launches a coup / military action that completely fucks the citizens of a country, to force their favoured economic system on them and/or steal resources*
Decades later: "Wow, things are really terrible there. How did that happen? Must have been that dreaded socialism. Here are some sanctions that will totally help matters."
Further proof why people who "Support Putin" in the name of anti-imperialist brainworms actually do have brainworms, of the anti-imperialism-taken-to-the-absurd variety. Thankfully that "Support" that they "Give Putin" is limited to posting "I support Putin" on Social Internet Media Website Messageboards, and doesn't really consist of giving them any actual meaningful real support besides Flame Troll Posts on said SIMWMs.
Further context and irony: Bill Clinton is credited with dragging Yeltsin across the finish line for the W.
Yeah, even as one of us I hadn't known it was a coup like that till relatively recently.
Before anyone goes redditbro and corrects OPs spelling, this was 1991, back then they spelled years as yars, read a book lib
This was because back then you'd end the year by going "is it over yet" and getting the reply back "yar"
Hey look, we also need to note here that the referendum was boycotted in Armenia, Estonia, and Georgia (except in Georgia's breakaway province), Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova. They held separate referendums where there was around 75 to 80 percent support for independence. There were no votes cast in those republics in the soviet referendum. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Central Asian republics absolutely did not want to leave the USSR (or at least leave a state of federation) though and only did in the aftermath of the coup. Those vote ranges were from 72 to 98 percent. Russia and Ukraine had the lowest support while the central asian republics had the highest. Also, the wording of the referendum is also not really about keeping the USSR but a new federation, regardless the USSR as it existed was going away either way.
I’m incredibly ignorant about the history of the Soviet Union, especially post-WW2 and around its breakup.
How did it all fall apart after this?
There is a comprehensive video on the fall about the collapse of the USSR.
TLDR for after the referendum: Basically there was a coup and chaos, and individual countries seceded from the union.
If you have the time, here's a great series of articles on the decline and fall of the Soviet Union.
Idk how it was commonly understood, but it seems to me like the referendum was whether to remain as a single body or not, not whether to keep the USSR. It would've transitioned into a capitalist liberal democracy regardless. The wording on the referendum very heavily hints at that at least.
Yeah most countries remained as part of the Community of Independent States, a no visa passport only union.
