• RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s a very narrow view of what happened after the second world war. URSS occupied half of the European continent. It basically was the last empire in Europe with all the resources and human capital at its disposal to do anything it wanted. Not to mention war reparations.

    And it lost. The ideology wasn’t working. It took 40 years for that empire to collapse, but collapse it did because it was built on the wrong principles.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure famine, sanctions, and concentrated international sabotage had nothing to do with it.

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          1 year ago

          Last I checked, 1946-1947 comes after 1945, double-check my math though.

          And let’s circle back around to the far more important concentrated international sabotage if you please.

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            1 year ago

            The Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 because of the famine in 47?

            And let’s circle back around to the far more important concentrated international sabotage if you please.

            International sabotage? Do you have evidence of sanctions against USSR and their allies which weren’t matched back by USSR & their allies?

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              1 year ago

              Someone else already linked ‘Killing Hope’ by William Blum. I recommend perusing it.

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                1 year ago

                Killing Hope’

                That doesn’t answer the question. At most, it just shows that KGB were more incompetent or not endowed with literary talent.

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                    1 year ago

                    I asked for examples of international sanctions which USSR & their allies couldn’t match. That book is about CIA and US crappy foreign policy. If you say that CIA actions where themselves sanctions against USSR, then surely KGB should have solved the issue.