"And even now, months after the failed coup that doomed a failed system, I'm not sure we've absorbed the full impact, the full import of what happened. But communism died this year."

>>17828104 (OP)
reminder that when Baltic states declared independence from USSR he urged them to stand down and not do it because he afraid it would destabilize region. fucking cuck.

communism did relatively ok despite decades of Western embargos and CIA sabotage

>>17828104 (OP)

>>17828272
it did ok once you forget things like rationed food, getting arrested for anti-state agitation for pointing out rationed food which capitalist countries mysteriously don't have, and needing permission to even leave town

>communism did relatively ok
HA
>despite decades of Western embargos and CIA sabotage
That's right little brother, it's all someone else's fault

>>17828109
in all fairness, there was a major concern about what would happen with the various nukes the USSR had if it collapsed (especailly if said collapse was due to a civil war)

>>17828294
why is it somehow Poland and Czechia GDP per capita in 1990 was 300 USD more than it was in 1938 but West Germany, Italy, Sweden etc per capita GDP was around 4,000 USD higher in 1990 than it was 1938? really makes you think doesn't it. also ask why Eastern bloc cunts had rubble of buildings destroyed in WW2 which in 1990 had still not been rebuilt.

>>17828293
again there wouldn't be rationing if not for Western embargo and CIA sabotage of socialist countries economies

>>17828109
Any geopolitical move ever is a gamble but sometimes you just have to roll the dice and see what happens.

>>17828393
Socialists talk about self-sufficiency and autarky. If you can’t achieve that when it’s a core part of your ideology, then your ideology is shit

>>17828393
that's like wignats saying Hitler would have won except that international Jewish bankers sabotaged him

>>17828104 (OP)
Wrong photo this is the '92 SOTU address. Note his tie is different.

>>17828393
>USSR food shortages and rationing were because of... le West!!?!1
This is complete nonsense
Provide one source that isn't Soviet propoganda
Holy shit, people actually believe this

The USSR almost had a famine in the 70s except Nixon sold them grain.

>>17828299
the Baltic states didn't have nukes. all of them were in RSFSR, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

>>17828393
Access to capitalists isnt a human right lmao
>kills capitalists
>wahhhh why wont the capitalists trade with me

>>17828305
>>17828293
fuck off Wotold

>>17828104 (OP)
My favorite story is how when he was ambassador to China in the 70s some Western leftist kids approached him one day and were "fuckin' America man we have no freedom of speech compared to China" and he was like ">China >more free and democratic than America. the fuck is this guy on?"

>>17830233
Until the mid-80s China also had Soviet-style internal travel restrictions where you needed a pass to leave town or travel outside the country.

>>17828879
why did kazakhstan get nukes

>>17828104 (OP)
1991... the year when we entered the bad end timeline... No wonder everything has been steadily going to shit since then

>>17828272
>>17828393
Literally the opposite, the Soviet Union immediately spawned into a famine which was relieved thanks to Western efforts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Famine_Relief_Act

>>17828293
>and needing permission to even leave town
That existed in russia before Communism, and still exists there today. They still have an internal passport system and closed cities.