Makan ☭ CPUSA to FULLCOMMUNISM • 3 years agoMikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle (Yes, this is an actual article from Foreign Policy)foreignpolicy.comexternal-linkmessage-square14arrow-up110arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkMikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle (Yes, this is an actual article from Foreign Policy)foreignpolicy.comMakan ☭ CPUSA to FULLCOMMUNISM • 3 years agomessage-square14file-text
“In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.”
minus-squareMuad'DibberAlink13•3 years ago Greatness ensued kill me. The pizza hut era: Life expectancy decreases by 10 years. 2. 7.7 million excess deaths in the first year. 2 40% of population drops into poverty. GDP instantly halves. One in ten children now live on the streets. Infant mortality increases. Was 29.3 in 2003 which is around (current) Syria and Micronesia, 7.9 in 2013. Infant mortality in USSR was 1.92, literally the lowest in the world. 1996 election rigged by the US, Yeltsin sends in tanks to disperse the supreme soviet.
minus-squareMakan ☭ CPUSAOPlink6•3 years agoAt least 5% of the population died off according to a recent book during the 1990s.
minus-square@redjokerlink4•3 years agoLargest “peacetime” loss of life of the modern era at that point
kill me.
The pizza hut era:
At least 5% of the population died off according to a recent book during the 1990s.
Largest “peacetime” loss of life of the modern era at that point