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It worked pretty well for most east bloc countries. Granted, they had to wait until the Soviet Union was weak to break away, but couldn't sanctions be one of th
by dvdkon 1y ago
It worked pretty well for most east bloc countries. Granted, they had to wait until the Soviet Union was weak to break away, but couldn't sanctions be one of the tools to get there faster?
- constantcrying 1y ago>It worked pretty well for most east bloc countries. And for some it worked out pretty badly. Hungarians rebeled against communism, but that rebellion was put down brutally. You are correct that towards the end of the Soviet Union many of the client states and Russia itself had popular uprisings which succeeded, but that that point the Communist Government was already failing. My point is not that no popular uprising has ever worked or that outside pressure can not force the end of some regime, but that telling people that they need to take up arms against their government is an insane proposition.
- sjapkee 1y agoAsk Balkans about their 90s. "Worked pretty well", yeah.
- dvdkon 1y agoI did say "most", and I stand by that. Look at most of Central Europe, the Baltics, Ukraine... Even the Asian parts of the USSR mostly had peaceful transitions into independence (and often into the hands of new semi-dictators, but that's beside the point).