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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by lapcat on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:52AM (#32662034)
So was Russia, actually. Yeltsin went all-in on "shock therapy" and rapid privatization of the economy.

If anything, Yeltsin was too aligned with US capitalist ideology.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hetman on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:53PM (#32671746)
Capitalism isn't the entirety of US ideology, and I would hardly say Russia was aligned given how vastly different their outcomes were compared to other eastern European nations.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by kemiller on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:27PM (#32716134)
I think the point is that the UK only needed rebuilding, not fundamentally restructuring.
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