• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    USSR Uhh…

    History should teach you that the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation was traveling around Moscow and Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union collapsed, but it never really gets talked about for some reason.

    A conservative who essentially birthed Project 2025 and is famously quoted as saying “I don’t want everyone to vote,” was teaching soviet politicians all about American “democracy” just prior to the collapse.

    Then he and several other members of Heritage were ready to fill the power vacuum and help establish the first go between for U.S. and Russian capitalist businesses.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      I’m aware of the dissolution of the USSR. It lasted for nearly a full century, and the causes of its dissolution have been studied by every single communist party in existence thoroughly. They didn’t dissolve because a random far-right Statesian whispered evil things, that was a symptom of the dissolution.

      Further, without the US Empire, there aren’t going to be nearly as many ways for the remaining capitalists to exert their will or coup.

      • plyth@feddit.org
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        18 days ago

        its dissolution have been studied by every single communist party in existence thoroughly

        What’s their conclusion?

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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          18 days ago

          Various, multifaceted reasons. There isn’t a one size fits all answer to that, but compounding problems. Each party has different takes on what was more or less important, but the big takeaway was that it was by no means inevitable.