Call this propaganda if you will: https://www.aei.org/feature/the-soviet-collapse/ https://www.aei.org/feature/the-soviet-collapse/ The Soviet Union became inc

Call this propaganda if you will: https://www.aei.org/feature/the-soviet-collapse/ https://www.aei.org/feature/the-soviet-collapse/ The Soviet Union became increasingly dependent on grain imports into the 70s and 80s. They had paid for this grain with oil. In the eighties, the price of oil collapsed, and they were forced to take loans to pay for the grain. As the amount of the loans got larger, banks became unwilling to make them. The Soviet Union was just months from mass starvation when it collapsed.