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The End of the Soviet Union

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  • Why go saying that its because of the US that the USSR fall apart. Gorbachov just wanted to try a different aproach, but he didn;t finish what he started, that's why USSR fall apart.

  • Piece of shit sold us for pizza hut

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  • It's already been 20 years...

  • what a shame! thank you for bombing vietnamese citizens?!

  • @TheCanucksfan21 dude...i think we had the same idea.

    United Soviet States of America? lol

  • You cant make a commone society from diffrent pepole. I respect every body but left idology is not practical

  • A great day for us. We americans alwas knew that the idea of communism is a aimless quest. And we know pr china will fall very soon. Isolation never pays off. But friends im not against the pepole of prc or ussr. I just want to tell "we are diffrent and

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  • @redsoxfan11495 HORSE1492. 03/09/27/2011 A.D. SO LETS GIVE CREDIT WHERE IS DUE,BORIS YELTSIN WAS SMART ENOUGH AND WISE ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE THAT COMMUNISM SIMPLY WAS NOT RIGHT FOR ANYONE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.SOCIALISM WAS FORCED UPON HIS OWN PEOPLE BY VLADIMIR LENIN,LEON TROTSKY,JOSEF STALIN,TO NAME A FEW.THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE,FOR THE MOST,NEVER EVEN ASKED ANYONE TO TURN RUSSIA INTO A POLICE STATE IN THE FIRST PLACE.THEY COULD HAVE HAD TRUE DEMOCRACY BUT THAT NUTCASE LENIN HAD OTHER IDEAS.

  • @redsoxfan11495 HORSE1492. 03/09/27/2011 A.D. THE USSR COLLASPED MAINLY BECAUSE THE CITZENS OF THE OTHER REMAINING 14 OR 15 SOVIET REPUBLICS WANTED THIER FREEDOM.THEY WANTED TO GOVERN THEMSELVES,AS WITHIN RUSSIA HERSELF.THE HUGE MAJORITY OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY NO LONGER WANTED TO LIKE SLAVES AGAINST THIER WILL.AND BESIDES,BORIS YELTSIN HIMSELF NEVER BELIEVED IN SOCIALISM ANYWAY-HE JUST JOINED THE CPSU TO SEEK EVEN GREATER OPPORTUNITIES.

  • It wasnt one thing that made the soviet union collapse, Reagen put pressure on the soviets to invest heavily on defense when they couldnt afford to, pope john paul the second inspired many in the eastern bloc to fight for solidarity, and continued human rights violations and the afghan war payed a heavy financial and PR cost, not to mention the terrible organization of the economy, all these factors combined brought done the soviets, not one single source couldve done it alone

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