It is very strange that nobody is talking about the dramatic effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I believe that the collapse is comparable to the post-

It is very strange that nobody is talking about the dramatic effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I believe that the collapse is comparable to the post-colonisation effects. Nobody is talking about the millions of people who got their lives destroyed. Science ended in nothing. Careers disappeared. The GDP took 20 years to recover as it plummeted to the 1960s levels after the collapse. This all was celebrated as "great victory" of freedom and the free markets, ignoring the grandparents of the 1990s who hanged themselves because there was no money to pay anything. This "Fialka" mentioned in the article is just another artifact of the big mistake we are continuing to do and are still not realizing that we were wrong in the way we treated the countries and people after the collapse. Funny enough that exactly this arrogant behavior has lead to leaders like Xi, who is so consumed by the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union that directly impacts relationships we believe that matter, e.g. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang with their Uighurs.