Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:32PM
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> Marshall Plan was about economic investment. The transition from communism to capitalism was a very rough one for the Soviet people, and that's a big part of why democracy failed.
It was also about stabilising a war-torn continent’s economy. To keep them from going communist.
And it would've made a lot of sense to re-apply it here since Russia has clearly gone in a strongly authoritarian direction and is invading its neighbors. It's a pretty clear example of a destabilizing actor in the region.
How would you have applied it? Japan surrendered so they had a lot less say in how things where handled. No such thing happened with the USSR/Russia.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:01PM
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> it would've made a lot of sense to re-apply it here
Absolutely agree with you. Long-term, I think the stable state for Russia is a deconstruction of the old empire and a global commitment to Marshall Plan the resulting republics into modernity.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died
by KptMarchewa on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:48PM
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They had democracy of a Ryazan sugar flavor. Nothing compared to real one.
We didn't need to impose democracy. Russia had democracy for a time. The Marshall Plan was about economic investment. The transition from communism to capitalism was a very rough one for the Soviet people, and that's a big part of why democracy failed.