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Re:Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union To... by jltsiren on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:52AM (#41615956)
Liberal free market capitalism is far from easy. Russia tried it in the 90s, but it failed catastrophically. They just could not make it work in the situation they were, with the people and institutions they had.
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Re:Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union To... by RandomLensman on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:02AM (#41615993)
I think there was also a lot of misunderstanding in the West how things could go. Having easily accessible strong rights systems outside of Russia but a weak one inside combined certainly in expected ways - derailing ideas of how these things would form inside Russia as a necessity.
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Re:Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union To... by ziggyzecat on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:17AM (#41616041)
They killed the very people who would have made it work a few decades earlier. However motivated ...
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