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USSR didn't lose. It just suddenly dissolved. Hovewer the result of this spurred a set of negative processes which eventually led to the decline of US and the West in general.
About dissolution - he lost control. In a way, he was our Trump. The Union could have been saved had the elites actually tried to but they decided not to. Sad. Would have been a cool country had it survived. Probably would eventually drift into Eurasianism like modern Russia. Ukraine would still be the best and richest republic and not the shithole it is today. And no, I'm not talking about the war. It became a shithole long before that.
>inb4 someone disagrees
The question of why the Union dissolved and what processes and decisions happened among the elites (including those who became elites of separate republics) are well researched and there are plenty of documents and interviews of participants in the process.
t. Ruskie