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Destruction of the USSR in 1991 gave a boost to the Western economies by eliminating a strong competitor and opening a new huge market. While you enjoyed your
by anticodon 5y ago
Destruction of the USSR in 1991 gave a boost to the Western economies by eliminating a strong competitor and opening a new huge market.
While you enjoyed your life in 1991, people around me literally died of hunger, because Gorbachev and Yeltsin and their advisors from USA killed almost all the industry on the former USSR territory overnight. People lost jobs, people lost savings, people lost meaning of life overnight.
It's a biggest case of genocide since 1940s, that is silenced and undocumented.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoThe USSR destroyed itself. It was bankrupt by 1989: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/22/world/soviets-foresee-budget-deficit-of-162-billion.html https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/22/world/soviets-foresee-bud...