WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE (ECONOMICS) by Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for So

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE (ECONOMICS)

by Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for Soviet propaganda”

Answered Aug 26, 2017

The Soviet Union went bankrupt.

By 1991, it could no longer maintain the normal functioning of its civil economy (read: feeding and sheltering people) and run its enormous military-industrial complex at the same time. The Kremlin had to choose, for the first time since WWII.

Lenin and Stalin would have chosen the military. Population would have started to revolt, and they would have quieted it all down by an epic blood-letting and strangulation. The North Korean Kims did that in the 1990s, and it worked.

Gorbachev and Co didn’t feel like murdering people. They pulled the plug on the military. Gorbachev got a Nobel prize for that from humanity, and an undying hate from the entire Russian nation (with the exception of some scum like myself) for all posterity.

The military-industrial complex (a good half of the economy, or more) ground to a halt, entire cities in provinces shut down, troops went hungry, and it rippled throughout the whole country to Moscow.

Then the BIG thing happened, the one you know from history books.

The USSR was a Communist empire that consisted of several ethnic republics. When money stopped coming from Moscow, and the fearsome Soviet machine of suppression and control ran dry for fuel, the ethnic elites didn’t see any reason to subjugate themselves to Moscow.

The fifteen republics went every which way. The USSR project was finished.