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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by pm90 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:17PM (#32656832)
The US never invaded Russia, so they didn’t have the kind of power they had over post WW2 Japan.

Anyways even with that kind of power, the prevailing economic ideology at the time the Soviet Union fell was of extreme neoliberalism, so I doubt it would have helped anyway.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by vintermann on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:43AM (#32659472)
We do know what the US wanted though, because they were quite open about it, and they got it: in particular the neoliberal shock therapy reforms which were such a distaster.

Today, we also know that they were backing Yeltsin for a long time, and supported his 1993 attack on parliament which decisively turned Russia into the dictatorship it is now.

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