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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:28PM (#16443961)
> A push for human rights increases the chance of a government collapse. That's what happened in the Soviet Russia during Gorbachev

Strictly, no. That was the USSR. Soviet Russia (the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) didn't experience government collapse, though it did change its name to the Russian Federation.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by _cs2017_ on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:38PM (#16444003)
Yes yes, I misused the term. I meant the USSR, of course.
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