• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    21 days ago

    USSR imploded with little help from the West.

    Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn’t sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.

  • mgnome@piefed.social
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    20 days ago

    You’d be better seeing fall of USSR as cautionary tale of letting senile morons run a country to the ground.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The three biggest countries in the world are all imperialist trash. Yet you stan for Russia so hard. None of these places care about people. China is doing the best at feigning it in this particular moment with the green energy push. US and Russia are just bumping their dicks on everything, blind af.