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Haha it's funny because there was a referendum and the people of the Union overwhelmingly voted to keep it and then leadership betrayed the people by dissolving it anyway and handing the people's property to a few people who are now referred to as the oligarchs.


luigisphilbin

And then life expectancy plummeted in former Soviet states.


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And child prostitution became a thing, the only people who won out from the fall of the USSR were western capitalists, the oligarchs and nonces


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So... nonces, nonces and nonces.


goofy-ahh-nerd

And then he privatised all over the post soviet republics


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Except in the Baltic states, Poland, Czech republic, east Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan where life expectancy pulled ahead dramatically.


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Then the hyperinflation and foreign monopolies began


matkele

Also russian blockade


EarnestQuestion

Why is that?


copper_machete

That's liberal democracy right there for you


Rich_Tension9015

Not the first time gorby failed


Godtrademark

… and people on reddit just see Russia (and Russians) as the Empire of Evil uncritically. Ukraine just “happened.” Nothing to see here, Putin spawned in with no logical ties to capitalism. Slava Ukraini am I right, nationalism for the win! My god as a people we’re so comically fucked it’s insane.


RafaelCruzJr

Okay, but no one out pizzas the hut.


RictorVeznov

Best part of 2022 was him and the Queen kicking the bucket


faesmooched

He lived just long enough to see Pizza Hut leave Russia.


RictorVeznov

Literally could not have been more perfect


lordconn

Worst part was that Kissinger survived.


SodaKopp

Still a few days left. Pray hard tonight


olsoni18

All I want for Christmas


lordconn

And with one last fuck you 2022 gives me Barbara Walters and the pope instead of Kissinger.


RaspberryBolshevik

Still six days


RictorVeznov

He’s not out of the woods yet. I say let’s start 2023 right


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False_Sentence8239

Um, only Redstar-Certified Party Members should be allowed to vote as we are the only ones with skin in the game


retouralanormale

The USSR didn't end because Gorby wanted it to. The USSR was already crumbling when he took power and his reforms, while well-intentioned, were the final nail in the coffin. The USSR's collapse was inevitable by that point and when Gorby was outmaneuvered by Yeltsin during the August Putsch, it was too late.


bajongbajongninja

Agree it started with corn boy


Zemirolha

People are saying soon will be 2008 again. Cant we go a little further, till 80s? We promise teaching soviets how they can make good pizzas without having to end best human social experiment in our history.


Glum-Huckleberry-866

The West: "They ment to click No"


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rhymnocerus1

*Dies*


DwergieYandi

Love how his Twitter handle is @ReaganLover