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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hparadiz on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:17PM (#32656419)
Selling off the communist factories was a huge mistake. Should have followed the Chinese model of slowly introducing capitalist things into the existing economy. Instead they laid everyone off and of course everything went to shit.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by InTheArena on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:27PM (#32656493)
The Chinese model was to avoid what Gorbachev did, and massacre their own people at Tiananmen square.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hetman on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:12AM (#32658605)
That really worked out for China didn't it. Under Xi Jinping there's a resurgence of Communist ideology and not at all the gradual acclimation to Western style democracy everyone had expected.
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