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Everybody said the USSR was collapsing and it kept growing until the country collapsed. China’s GDP numbers are notoriously opaque and difficult to vet. It’s no
by selectodude 3y ago
Everybody said the USSR was collapsing and it kept growing until the country collapsed. China’s GDP numbers are notoriously opaque and difficult to vet. It’s no different than saying Los Angeles is going to get flattened by an earthquake. Its inevitable but good luck predicting it.
- pphysch 3y agoThe USSR had obviously deep political dysfunction; it was a hollow gerontocracy in its latter decades. It had run out of ideas and was desperately looking to the West for inspiration. There is a superpower that bears stark resemblance to the dying USSR, and it's not the PRC.
- sudosysgen 3y agoThe fall of the USSR was more of a political collapse caused by elites thinking another system would be better, not economic collapse.