Yes, it does go much deeper than that. People only let their country dissolve when it completely and utterly fails them. I'm not saying it happened because we

Yes, it does go much deeper than that. People only let their country dissolve when it completely and utterly fails them. I'm not saying it happened because we had a slightly better GDP, I'm saying it happened because their system legitimately sucked. To try to attribute it to western propaganda does a disservice to the people who actively worked to end communism in Eastern Europe because they were tired of the abuse.