>What do you make of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in Europe? As bad as the Soviet Union was, what came next for Russia was far far worse.

>What do you make of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in Europe? As bad as the Soviet Union was, what came next for Russia was far far worse. The Soviets at least had party rule; Russia is now an absolute autocracy ruled with an iron grip of one man who is now liquidating 30,000 people a month in a pointless war. Orders of magnitude more people have died in the last four years of Ukraine than in every direct Soviet military action combined post-WW2. Remember that Afghanistan was their most infamous blunder, leading directly to the dissolution, and only killed half of what they are losing monthly now.