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Oh please. USSR broke to pieces because of internal problems not because some Polish workers locked themselves up in a shipyard.
by dh2022 3y ago
Oh please. USSR broke to pieces because of internal problems not because some Polish workers locked themselves up in a shipyard.
- sakjur 3y agoAnimats did not claim otherwise AFAICT. The forming of a union in Poland in 1980 is something I’ve been taught was one of the earliest public signs that Kremlin was losing its grasp over the east bloc. That’s not at all incompatible with Soviet falling apart due to internal problems.
- dh2022 3y agoWell I read Animats’ comment in the context of activism producing change - not in the context of activism being a symptom of change…