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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by 082349872349872 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:24PM (#23419291)
How did the USSR do it? Was the deal that whoever took on the debt would keep the nukes?
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by quantummkv on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:45PM (#23419536)
Essentially, yes. Russia got all the nukes[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Protocol

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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by pjc50 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:27PM (#23419328)
The international community persuaded Ukraine to give up their nukes in return for a guarantee of safety. Which turned out to be worthless.
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